Garibaldi and Italy that there is

It can really concern the iconoclastic fury of a mayor of Messina? After all, the distrust of a people than eponymous heroes, real or imagined, can only reassure. So why does it feel uncomfortable, as dazed before a crude tribal ritual? Fear ignorance. The intellectual laziness of a country in moral lethargy, absolutely devoid of memory, even his more recent past. The new Sicilian autonomy, miraculously risen in the eastern part of the island, that historically united and indifferent to the claims of self elites nineteenth Palermo, has declared war on Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento. Are symbols of oppression, yesterday Piedmont Roman today.

Months before, during the "Bicentennial" by Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Northern League had paid the General as "an advocate of state centralist" ally of Cavour and Vittorio Emanuele against federalist project of Carlo Cattaneo. Roberto Castelli is not De Felice, but the exponent of a movement born from the delirium of omnipotence of a lord of Varesotto. Lombardo, for its part, is the heir of the band for half a century that has poisoned institutions and society Sicily, to reduce them in agony. But they are right? Garibaldi was certainly not an expert on institutional issues. During the occupation of the island, the administrative organization entrusted to Francesco Crispi, animator of the revolution of'48.

Crispi claimed the specificity of institutions islanders. He had married the cause of Italian as a solution and guarantee the achievement of freedom and rights of the island. From a supporter of Sicilian and democratic local governance, had approached the federalist argument of Cattaneo. These, in turn, looked with interest the experiment Garibaldi, in view of the decentralized structure of the future state. That is reached Garibaldi in Naples, accepting the offer of cooperation. In the end, will not be certain the General Assembly and Crispi to divest plebiscite for annexation and the recruitment of legislation Piedmont throughout the peninsula. It was rather the political intelligence of Cavour to displacement. Proposals for administrative decentralization, compiled by the government Garibaldi, were never examined by the post-unitary. I neoautonomisti are uninformed. Although funded by the Kingdom, the shipment of Mille was organized by the Sicilian revolutionaries in exile. Crispi convinced Garibaldi to guide and hundreds of volunteers joined there Marsala. If anything was stolen instrumental to deformation, the debate on the Risorgimento would emerge the problem we are still before doing Italy. This country increasingly disrupted, prey of particularism and pushed corporate, is on the brink of dissolution. Need a modern state without territorial and local inequalities. Without the northern and southern issues.

Enrico Sciuto