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UNITA 'YES, NO RISORGIMENTO

on 12 February was held in the Capitoline Protomoteca the Capitol, an annual event of the Catholic Alliance.

This year, however, on the occasion of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Unification Italy has decided to do it big. The number of participants is around four hundred people, which means a great success, which is also reflected in the sensitivity of the guests who have spoken. The day can be divided broadly into two parts. In the first part of the conference was attended by: Marco Invernizzi who worked on the Catholic question, Mauro Ronco, which has long considered the institutional and analytically, Francesco Pappalardo, however, dealt with the issue of the South and Marina Valensise with "recovered memory" and, finally, the greetings of the mayor of Rome, Mr Alemanno. In the afternoon, speakers are: Archbishop Luigi Negri, Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro on. Alfredo Mantovano; on. Alessandro Pagano; on. Massimo Poliedri.E final conclusions were entrusted to Introvigne and John Cantoni. In this article I will return, Invernizzi directly some of the same words on the Catholic question, then that is what is often the most neglected and ignored

<< The Catholic question during the years following the Restoration, in Italy, apparently does not exist. The Papal Magisterium of the Holy See diplomatic action are directed specifically against the work of secret societies, against the Enlightenment rationalism and against the same romantic nationalism. However, governments of the Restoration, as mentioned, are not on this line and look with suspicion if not hostility to Catholics Ultramontanes or counter. The example is emblematic of the Prince of Canosa. The impression, which should be checked and thoroughly, is that Catholics in general are lagging behind in front of the media that the Revolution uses from time to penetrate the public with tools such as books and newspapers. Initiatives are born, of course, as the newspapers counterrevolutionaries in Turin, Modena and Naples, whose adventures are recounted in the book but precious Sandro Fontana on the counter in Catholic Italy. But these newspapers must guard against the same systems Restoration, as well as the most advanced counter-association in this area, Friendship Christian (Catholic Friendship after 1815) of Ven. Pio Bruno Lanteri, who is sacrificed, that is condemned to extinction, in 1827, by the government of Piedmont. Fontana supports the thesis that the Italian counter-culture of this period is especially indebted to those from France, where the end of Napoleon developed a flourishing and fruitful environment for counter, which then produced several works translated in the rest of Europe: Lamennais De Bonald, the already mentioned de Maistre. In fact, in Italy the counter-culture can not emerge, Despite major figures of intellectuals and government, including Clemente Solaro della Margarita, Mgr. Baraldi, Monaldo Leopardi, Father Ventura, the above-mentioned prince of Canosa. In short pulls a bad air for the Catholic militants, if I may say so. Some, like the Blessed Antonio Rosmini, try a different route, having attended and shared the same ideals of friendship. [...] The Pope repeatedly explain that the hostility of the Holy See is the unification of principle, but in the way it is being implemented. Remember also that temporal power is necessary because the Church can freely exercise his spiritual mission, but the entity the land is questionable, as it will be understood after the Treaty and the Concordat with the Italian state in 1929. But now, after 1848, the clash between the Church and the national movement is in things. And the Church is in fact allied with the empire led by the young Emperor Franz Joseph, also divided into at least three different cultural components, only one of which supports a relationship with the Church to return to that freedom the case of court had taken away.>>

As regards the second part of the day, I would like to post some words of vice-regent of the National Catholic Alliance, Introvigne:

< ethos Italian was then reformulated in a creative way to meet the challenges of modernity, keeping the roots in the Catholic tradition, and thus developing a national identity different from that described by Weber, the Protestant majority in some countries. This ethos managed to steer the process of modernization of Italy? The answer can only be qualified, and implies a distinction between the people and the elite . At the popular level ' Catholic ethos has certainly ruled, lights and shadows, the transformation that has made Italy one of the most important countries, at least from an economic standpoint, West co ntemporaneo. The transition has been ruled in a non-traumatic, while maintaining the realism of the typical ' Catholic ethos and the rejection of utopias, and without losing the connection to the many local peculiarities and traditions of different Italie. On the other hand - for a variety of reasons, moreover, are widely known - the elite and the "big powers" have tried to guide the process of modernization of Italy - in its political, economic and cultural - against 's National Catholic ethos, while prevalent in the population, and under the strong influence of the anti-Italian. The process of formation of ' national ethos that I have endeavored to describe shows like Italy was united, just around this ethos and the refusal of the people - not just the top and principles - that the Italians opposed to the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, well before 1861. The anti-Italian party has dreamed for centuries revenge than to defeat the Italians had done to the Reformation in the sixteenth century, preventing it from crossing the Alps was not the anti-Italian who invented the idea of \u200b\u200bpolitical unity in Italy : other currents of thought he saw advantages in the context of international political and economic nineteenth century. But this party was to dominate the shape of the unit dealing with the Risorgimento, dress unique and centralist - while others thought a federalism cautious, respectful of wealth pre-unification Italy - imposed on a country united by its Catholic ethos but different in its one hundred local peculiarities. Italy to impose this dress could not deny that the ' ethos, that is to deny the history and traditions c oncrete trying to replace them - even through the work of the school of the state - the model with abstract and utopian a new nation, the second desk study typically Masonic ideals of social engineering [50]. And the effort, often brutal, all Italians to wear the same dress with wooden destroyed traditions, cultures and economies that are also - like that of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and further denial of vulgata pseudo-Weberian argument that economic progress could succeed only in Protestant countries - were not in ruins before 1860 [51], but they were ruined after largely for ideological reasons. These are issues that should prompt a review of the relationship between the 'ethos the ruling houses of Italy and Italian pre-unification from - traditional and dimensions of the kingdom - right from the monarchy of the Two Sicilies whose history is been the subject of a stunning work of defamation and misrepresentation that he wanted to fall with particular violence on a world that had given a grant of special importance to the Italian and European Catholic culture. >>

said, it is easy to see that, Benigni, literally distort historical reality with his speech at the Festival. And we can crush its renaissance romance with the words of two unsuspecting subjects: Gramsci and Garibaldi himself: Piedmont << That was a brutal dictatorship that has laid waste to fire and Southern Italy and islands, crucifying, quartering, burying alive poor farmers that the "writers employees" tried to defame the brands ... or Brigan you>> (Antonio Gramsci).
<< When posterity will review acts of the Government and Parliament during the Italian Risorgimento (resurgence then, from what?), You will find things to cloaca >> G. Garibaldi.

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