Giuseppina Martinuzzi

Giuseppina Martinuzzi (Albona, 14 February 1844 – Albona, 25 November 1925) was an Italian pedagogue, journalist, socialist, and feminist.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Personal life

Martinuzzi was born in Labin to Antonia Luis and Giovanni Pietro Martinuzzi (mayor of Labin); she was the eldest of three children.^[4] She qualified as a teacher in 1875.^[5]

She lived a long time in Trieste, where she taught in the poor neighbourhoods of the city,^[6] helping with the integration of the Slovenians and fighting against narrow nationalistic municipalism. In 1904 she was elected to Trieste municipal council.^[7]

She joined the Communist Party of Italy in 1921 and soon founded, and became the political secretary of, the Women's Communist Group of Trieste.^[6][8] She was a leading light in the Women's Socialist Circle and wrote numerous political tracts for the emancipation of women.^[2] In her last prose work, Fra italiani e slavi, she expresses her ideal of pacifism and ethnic integration.^[2]

A primary school is named after her in Pula.^[9]

Works

• Manuale mnemonico, Trieste, 1886^[10]
• I semprevivi. In memoria de' miei cari ed amati genitori Giovanni ed Antonia Martinuzzi, Rovereto 1896
• Nelle caverne di S. Canziano, Udine, 1897
• Albona. 20 genn. 1599 – 20 genn. 1899, Trieste, 1899
• Semprevivi, 1896^[7]
• Libertà e schiavitù, Trieste, 1899
• Patria e socialismo, Trieste, 1899^[7]
• Among the irredents, 1899^[7]
• Presente e avvenire, Firenze, 1900
• Edmondo De Amicis e la questione sociale, Trieste, 1900
• The national struggle in Istria considered as an obstacle to socialism, 1900^[7]
• Ingiustizia, Trieste, 1907
• Nazionalismo morboso e internazionalismo affarista, Trieste, 1911^[11]
• Maternità dolorosa, Trieste, 1911
• Invito alla luce, Trieste, 1912
• Ai giovani socialisti, Trieste, 1912
• Amilcare Cipriani, Trieste, 1913
• Fra italiani e slavi, 1914^[7]
• Socijalizam i Domovina^[12]

• Reading Book for Public Schools (co-author)^[6]
• Pro Patria magazine, 1888 (publisher)^[5]
• Pro Patria Nostra magazine, 1889 (publisher) ^[5]