Sarina Nathan or Sara Levi Nathan born Sarina Levi. She was an Italian patriot, financier and confidant of Giuseppe Mazzini and a promulgator of Mazzini's ideas and works.
Sarina Nathan or Sara Levi Nathan born Sarina Levi (7 December 1819 – 19 February 1882) was an Italian patriot. She was the financier and confidant of Giuseppe Mazzini and promulgator of Mazzini's ideas and works.
Life
Nathan was born in Pesaro in 1819. Her parents were Ricca Rosselli and Angelo Levi. At the age of eleven her mother died and she was entrusted to two ladies in Modena to complete her education.
To avoid her conversion to Catholicism, she was then sent by her father to her maternal relatives in Livorno, a city that allowed a freedom of worship to Jews. Here, she met Meyer Moses Nathan, a German-born Jewish stockbroker who lived in London. They married, moved to London and became British citizens by 1837.
She met Giuseppe Mazzini in London in 1837 during his exile. She was attracted by his revolutionary and anti-monarchist ideas. In 1848, she began exchanging letters with Mazzini and she became his confidante. Her husband started a penny subscription scheme from his work contacts and 200 subscribed. An intermediary between the two was Pellegrino Rosselli, cousin of Sara and friend of Mazzini. He would later marry her daughter.
