Italy has seen really since many representatives of different districts of a nascent nation should come together in the Palazzo Carignano in Turin. It was March 17, 1861 appointment with the unification and there were people like Giuseppe Verdi.
To make the miracle were the ideas, the political courage. Mazzini, Gioberti, D'Azeglio, Cattaneo, fathers thought of the varied Risorgimento, along with the courage to generous personality as the political genius of Garibaldi and Cavour were able to dial into a patchwork of separate national governments rolled out in a twist on the boot . "An expression geographical, Metternich called it. "A country of the dead", according to Lamartine.
A Babel of dialects and of dynasties, including foreigners, who were an aggregate of our country socially and politically backward and unable to compete with other European nations. It was not an easy task, indeed, cost him blood and tears. The historian Gaetano Salvemini we have the accounts of the fallen part of the Piedmont and Garibaldi. Custoza (1848) 270. Curtatone: 166. Novara (1849) 578. Cernaia (Crimea) 14. St. Martin (1859) 761. Varese: 22. Calatafimi: (1860) 30. Volturno 506. Castelfidardo 61. Bezzecca: 121. Custoza ( 1866) 736. Lissa: 620. Mentana 150.
It was worth it? Enough to respond back to the pre-unification status of social classes, oppressed by social injustice, the inequality, illiteracy (86% to 90%), poverty and lack of freedom, by a tax burden borne by all poor people. The South had the worst condition, with the endemic phenomenon of banditry and the Camorra, the Bourbons were in wide use. And while the European market had long since abandoned protectionism, we lived by the industry due to government procurement.
the center and the North did not go better. The revolution renaissance, despite the current thinking, vulgar, of a political party, the League (paradoxically responsible for the provocation of a new patriotism), has benefited everyone, including the territories which now runs the slogan of " not "celebrate. Yes, it was worth it. The story is not made with the if, it is known, but, despite the difficult road toward modernization, although we can not always speak of "magnificent and progressive" (Leopardi), despite the "Italy at" giolittina, Fascism , dysfunctional politics of the past and present, despite the continuing problems of underdevelopment of large parts of the country, the lack of national cohesion, so many misunderstandings between North and South, we have become a great power.
A nation rich and potentially in a position to compete with the world market. What would have happened if that hardly 150 years ago was not the miracle of unity. As the President said Napolitano, divided into eight smaller states would be "swept away by history." E 'with the thought that celebrating Italy. No rhetoric.
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