On the sidelines of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. "Italy is made, it remains to make Italians." is the most famous phrase in Italian history, delivered in those fateful days of unification by one of its most intelligent players, Massimo d'Azeglio, already critical and disenchanted.
not easy to explain how profound truth there was in this statement, which still constitutes a source of reflection and debate among historians and political scientists. In this bold and provocative sentence contains in nuce the whole issue of the Italian Revolution: the unification had not been implemented just as the Italians already were homeless and suffered from it? The movements, plots, conspiracies, attacks, wars, had not been made to free Italians from intolerable and brutal oppression of foreign and indigenous?
Furthermore, another is not a minor issue: the Italians, "you do"? A population is created by the war and plebiscites, or people there already? And if you get to feel like a need expressed by d'Azeglio (which it may be the reasons and beyond the question provocatively), not perhaps one should not conclude that the unification was not wanted and felt by Italian populations but has been imposed on them by a political and social elite?
As you can see, these issues can be found in the main causes of dysfunction that 150 years from tearing society and national history, and in particular it exists, more immediately, one in all, the most serious, the most unresolved : the division of our people. Just the very principle of "having make Italians "shows that he had deliberately renounced the ancient Italian identity in the name of a new road, antithetical to the true Italian civilization, and subversive. It was chosen
short of denying and destroying the real Italy (in fact, that the protagonists of the Risorgimento - and with them all in the decades following risorgimentisti - called "Old Italy") in the name of "the new Italy." Namely, an Italy that no longer universal, no longer Catholic, soon to even more monarchical in short, no more "Roman" and, therefore, not "Italian." It was necessary in other words "make Italians", as if always existed, that is different from the way they always were and they wanted to stay.
in recent decades has started (and is growing ever more intense and engaging) a review of historical events - and their players - which led the Italian national unification process of the Risorgimento and the consequences on the national history of the twentieth century . A nucleus growing number of professors, historians and political scientists began to question certain aspects of the Italian Risorgimento and specific moments that were too easily encoded by the current dominant historiography - and then presented to generations of Italians for decades - as assumed indisputable, and on which we wanted to establish the 'collective imagination "of the Italian people as regards their national state.
In particular, there are some ideal times more precise and dramatic history that some nodes are more concerned these scholars. The first among them to attract the interest of historians has been, since the sixties, the revolt of the southern populations against the unitary process in defense of the Church and the Bourbon dynasty, known as "banditry" antiunitario, now rich topic of study the investigation, but that does not stop certain to stir controversy and division among experts and among the uninitiated. In the same vein is located antigiacobine the problem of outbreaks that occurred after the Napoleonic invasion: now, from "taboo" in our history, truly mystified and boycotted for decades, in recent years has become one of the most exciting page.
Over the past few years, then, is also flowering studies of Catholic, aiming to re-process the Risorgimento in the specific aspect of the war the church heroic conduct under the guise of national unification. The war against the Catholic Church and local traditions carried from the Risorgimento had as its object the death of the Pope as the Papal States to unification, but of the Pope as the Catholic Church, Like many of the most famous and lesser-known players of those days always had to declare publicly and testifying by their actions: it was a war conducted without scruple of any sort, which wounded deep in the Catholic identity of the Italians.
But, since the eighties, other aspects of the unification of Italy and united movement of the twentieth century and have been reviewed by various authors and historians, often non-Catholic - though not anti-Catholic - (sectarian terrorist Mazzini, the farce of the plebiscites, the endemic corruption, the emigrazionismo, nationalism, and then the Great War, Fascism son of the Risorgimento, September 8 and the "death of the fatherland" ideological civil war and hatred, etc.., to this day).
The conclusion, in different ways and for different routes, has always been the same, however: the finding of no real unity of the Italians, namely the apparent failure of what was the very purpose of the Risorgimento, the creation of a new national identity for Italians. It's a whole world of cultural and ideological beginning to falter under the pressure of the need and desire for the truth about the history of our people will finally be known by all.
(Source: Massimo Viglione, Roman Match, March 12, 2011)
not easy to explain how profound truth there was in this statement, which still constitutes a source of reflection and debate among historians and political scientists. In this bold and provocative sentence contains in nuce the whole issue of the Italian Revolution: the unification had not been implemented just as the Italians already were homeless and suffered from it? The movements, plots, conspiracies, attacks, wars, had not been made to free Italians from intolerable and brutal oppression of foreign and indigenous?
Furthermore, another is not a minor issue: the Italians, "you do"? A population is created by the war and plebiscites, or people there already? And if you get to feel like a need expressed by d'Azeglio (which it may be the reasons and beyond the question provocatively), not perhaps one should not conclude that the unification was not wanted and felt by Italian populations but has been imposed on them by a political and social elite?
As you can see, these issues can be found in the main causes of dysfunction that 150 years from tearing society and national history, and in particular it exists, more immediately, one in all, the most serious, the most unresolved : the division of our people. Just the very principle of "having make Italians "shows that he had deliberately renounced the ancient Italian identity in the name of a new road, antithetical to the true Italian civilization, and subversive. It was chosen
short of denying and destroying the real Italy (in fact, that the protagonists of the Risorgimento - and with them all in the decades following risorgimentisti - called "Old Italy") in the name of "the new Italy." Namely, an Italy that no longer universal, no longer Catholic, soon to even more monarchical in short, no more "Roman" and, therefore, not "Italian." It was necessary in other words "make Italians", as if always existed, that is different from the way they always were and they wanted to stay.
in recent decades has started (and is growing ever more intense and engaging) a review of historical events - and their players - which led the Italian national unification process of the Risorgimento and the consequences on the national history of the twentieth century . A nucleus growing number of professors, historians and political scientists began to question certain aspects of the Italian Risorgimento and specific moments that were too easily encoded by the current dominant historiography - and then presented to generations of Italians for decades - as assumed indisputable, and on which we wanted to establish the 'collective imagination "of the Italian people as regards their national state.
In particular, there are some ideal times more precise and dramatic history that some nodes are more concerned these scholars. The first among them to attract the interest of historians has been, since the sixties, the revolt of the southern populations against the unitary process in defense of the Church and the Bourbon dynasty, known as "banditry" antiunitario, now rich topic of study the investigation, but that does not stop certain to stir controversy and division among experts and among the uninitiated. In the same vein is located antigiacobine the problem of outbreaks that occurred after the Napoleonic invasion: now, from "taboo" in our history, truly mystified and boycotted for decades, in recent years has become one of the most exciting page.
Over the past few years, then, is also flowering studies of Catholic, aiming to re-process the Risorgimento in the specific aspect of the war the church heroic conduct under the guise of national unification. The war against the Catholic Church and local traditions carried from the Risorgimento had as its object the death of the Pope as the Papal States to unification, but of the Pope as the Catholic Church, Like many of the most famous and lesser-known players of those days always had to declare publicly and testifying by their actions: it was a war conducted without scruple of any sort, which wounded deep in the Catholic identity of the Italians.
But, since the eighties, other aspects of the unification of Italy and united movement of the twentieth century and have been reviewed by various authors and historians, often non-Catholic - though not anti-Catholic - (sectarian terrorist Mazzini, the farce of the plebiscites, the endemic corruption, the emigrazionismo, nationalism, and then the Great War, Fascism son of the Risorgimento, September 8 and the "death of the fatherland" ideological civil war and hatred, etc.., to this day).
The conclusion, in different ways and for different routes, has always been the same, however: the finding of no real unity of the Italians, namely the apparent failure of what was the very purpose of the Risorgimento, the creation of a new national identity for Italians. It's a whole world of cultural and ideological beginning to falter under the pressure of the need and desire for the truth about the history of our people will finally be known by all.
(Source: Massimo Viglione, Roman Match, March 12, 2011)
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