There is room for us to conclude that Bharathi did not merely know of Giuseppe Mazzini as a rebel. Mazzini had a multifaceted personality and Bharathi was familiar not only with Mazzini’s political writings but also his thoughts on art, literature, and so on. In his 1906 article titled “Art”, Bharathi cites Mazzini. While discussing the dearth of art, he writes that Mazzini, the Italian scholar, said that true art is born in two ways – it is born when an epoch ends and when an epoch takes birth. When the people of a country rise with true valour and energy there is a renaissance of art. In times of decline when the people are at a low, great men may appear but not great art. In December of the same year he wrote “Patriotism and schools”, in which he wonders whether to laugh or weep at the Indians who call themselves nationalists, who are there in plenty, who have read about western nationalists like Mazzini and Kossuth; convene meetings like them and pass resolutions; but while the westerners act upon those resolutions, in India they remain just words and not deeds.
All of the above reveal the impact of Mazzini and...
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