In these days of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy one of the books he did talk a lot and has produced several TV debates is that of Aldo Cazzullo "Long live 'Italy' that I advise everyone to read. In fact if you want to search for reasons of national pride that is more than any other book that analyzes the processes of unification and the opposite of those that are offered through in-depth analysis with light and therefore easy to read. Cazzullo reconstructs a pantheon of tricolor most of which are now completely ignored and forgotten, and instead are the very ones that should make us proud of our past. Ignorant as we have reduced some television and devoid of deep feeling, now it seems impossible that there are men and women for whom Italy was an ideal that it was life, and that "Long live Italy" were the last words; but just read a text such as "Letters of the prisoners on death of Italian Resistance" to realize in the past as a strong bond united united our people. It 's true to a certain point in our country's history there have been dragged down in the general concepts of fascism and then unifying elements such as flag, military, homeland have appeared in the same period exceeded by the wind again. It took all the authority of someone like the former President of the Republic Ciampi, who reminded us how we can be patriotic without being nationalistic to bring us back to a more sober reflection and review on our sense of nation. From Cazzullo
book we learn that The Renaissance is a large mosaic held together not by a single figure as it would have us believe: that of Garibaldi, but all four major figures and the same plane, Garibaldi, yes, but also Mazzini, Cavour and Vittorio Emanuele II. Through the Renaissance, the Great War and finally the resistance, the writer builds a gallery of heroes is not only noble epic of individual actions. "Heroes make us afraid. They are a touchstone uncomfortable with our national miseries, not with our people. So we try to drag everything down. So the alleged victims are transformed into forgetting that Republicans Salo made the choice to stay with the Nazis, not only with Mussolini. " Inevitable also the theory that at some point and emerges from the written Cazzullo for a long time did discuss many historians, namely that of "Death of the Nation" in which the writer believes rebels since the majority of Italians do not like traitors perennial We consider the common people. And now back to the Risorgimento topical we can conclude: "Reaching a shared patriotic sentiment in Italy is more difficult than in other countries. Why has repeatedly tried to build the foundation myths, which is logical and legitimate, but then that if you overdo it, get shots of the revisionism and myth crumbles. E 'success with the Risorgimento told in a poetic way, the Carducci, with icons such as the meeting of Teano that could not keep when you went to see with the problems of unification. "
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