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The Italy resulting from the plebiscites seemed artificial &deficient in national character.Italian culture still lacked a distinct identity of its own: the intellectual classes looked to France for their lead &other liberal politicians to England.Regional self-suffiency could not be broken down & there had been no social revolution to convince the peasants that they were participants in,not victims of,the new order.
— Jul 25, 2026 05:08AM
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Vittorio Emanuele became King of Italy in 1861.Because of the challenge of republicanism and the need to overshadow Garibaldi in popular esteem, an official apologetic and panegyric was developed to inflate his reputation.The true picture hidden behind clouds of incense is of a usually insignificant man,good-natured and shrewd,but superstitious and ill-educated, possessing little of the luster and aureole of majesty.
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Jul 25, 2026 05:52AM
Implicitly this suggests the extent to which the united Italy was an imposition , artifical, unwanted by the majority of its inhabitants? ( I imagine this is the subtext to the creation of many of the nation states that we see in the world today)
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