Brewer's: Young Italy

A league of Italian refugees, who associated themselves with the French republican party, called the Charbonnerie Démocratique (q.v.). It was organised at Marseilles by Mazzini, and its chief object was to diffuse republican principles.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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