An Tonio Di Pietro said: "Who is against the unification of Italy is a traitor." I am a traitor. Italy and better life was to pre-unification. Towns of Italy, the Republic Marinate, the Grand Duchy. Italy-workshop where, with the emergence, in Florence and Piacenza, a strong class of merchants (entrepreneurs who are now called) began Modernity. Italy's great literature, Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, Boccaccio, Ariosto and Tasso and right up to Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi. Italy's great art, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Titian and Tiepolo. Italy cathedrals, churches, parishes, villages and its unique landscape (now widely and uniformly foul) that are also the reasons why foreign tourists are still with us.
United Italy, from a cultural perspective, he still had a good time at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the latest trends, the great age of magazines, La Voce, La Ronda, La Cerba, Leonardo and fascism where we were during the first an area in which modern industrial design. The Second World War, cinema and apart a few exceptions, it is better to draw a veil.
Politically united Italy made two wars. A change to won it, the other was wrong and he lost an ally in the most ignominious way splitting, in this case, the country in two. Piazzale Loreto remains, symbolically and practically, an indelible disgrace. After the war, apart from the euphoria reconstruction (it's easy to be happy when you saved the skin), it was a disaster, especially since the late sixties. We are the only country to have four gangs (the strict sense, the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Sacra Corona Unita), the top places for corruption, emptied of any content that is not material and any value that does not God is the penny. What we should celebrate, President Napolitano?
The nation-state, like every human construction, is not eternal. He had his operation in a given historical period. He was born in Europe, for reasons of defense and economic harm, because the multitude of duties that free market that was just then taking hold. But today, in Europe, no nation state is so big and strong enough to ensure its own defense, nor so small and cohesive to be able to respond to the needs of identity that, in the era of globalization, has become increasingly compelling. In terms of trade not only there are no duties, but in Europe, not borders.
When Europe is politically united nation states will lose all reason for being. His reference points are no longer peripheral states, but the "macro", ie geographic areas economically, socially, culturally and climatically cohesive, which will also exceed current national boundaries (you do not see why they should not join, for example, the Savoy and the Valle d'Aosta, with the Tyrol and Trentino Alto Adige, the Riviera di Ponente and the Riviera and Provence).
Those who go are so gloriously to celebrate 150 years of dying institution.
Massimo Fini
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