Why did Giuseppe Mazzini join the Carbonari secret society?

Giuseppe Mazzini joined the Carbonari because of his deep-seated love of freedom and his desire to see Italy liberated from absolute rule. As a young man, he was profoundly influenced by witnessing a patriot fleeing the country following a failed insurrection, which led him to the conviction that Italians ought to struggle for their national liberty.1

The Carbonari were a secret society dedicated to opposing the conservative regimes imposed on Italy after 1815 and advocating for patriotic and liberal ideals. Mazzini saw the organization as a vehicle to pursue these goals; however, his time with the group eventually led him to conclude that its methods were ineffective. Following his arrest and internment in 1830, he reflected on the failures of the Carbonari and subsequently founded Young Italy in 1831 to replace what he viewed as a decaying movement with a more effective, national, and republican program.213