Six-string instrument with wooden body and neck. Giuseppe Mazzini was a passionate music lover and musician himself. Fully in tune with his time, he considered music education an indispensable element in the education and training of individuals and peoples. His musical interests, in particular his interest in the guitar, are evidenced both in his extensive correspondence with his mother and friends, especially between 1835 and 1856, and in his work 'Philosophy of Music', published in Paris in 1836. A connoisseur of the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries, he also paid particular attention to folk songs, considered the most genuine expression of the human soul. During his exile in Grenchen, Switzerland, he was able to appreciate the local folklore; as evidence of this, the Museo del Risorgimento has a copy of the musical manuscript that bears the autograph note: "Song of the Bernese Herdswomen, my memory of 1836 trusted now to my friend Giannetta Nathan".