Parlare dell'Unità d'Italia sembra significhi sempre più sviluppare un discorso che segua obbligatoriamente due sole traiettorie: lo smascheramento di una storia costruita a puntino con la conseguente rivendicazione di un vissuto dai confini forse più stretti ma più sentita, e la celebrazione di una Unità raggiunta grazie ai sacrifici e alla visione che ha guidato i nostri padri della patria to unite under one flag one country for too long remained divided. Now these days, as evidenced by the numerous controversies on the subject, it seems you can not find a middle ground between the two "stories", and perhaps to be honest you really can not find it, but 150 years of history should now be sufficient to give an account in which more mature, than white and black, there is also room for gray or for all other variants of the chromatic scale. For this reason, it seems fair to revisit the history of the Risorgimento in Sicily aware that the road to understanding can not fail to understand the history of the various parties, for better or for worse. So the memory of this nation can not most have only the tone of a romantic fairy tale, not only. For this reason I think we can talk about bringing back the memory of the Garibaldi also less noble reasons for that undertaking and the consequences for us Sicilians not entirely painless. Will then also remember the words uttered Cavour Piedmont parliament just a year before the unification of Italy "if not conquer the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in the Piedmont will be bankrupt within a year," be so remember the promises of reform, especially land, never kept, it should be noted that the situation of the islanders continued to worsen for decades to come, discomfort evidenced by the struggles of rebellion and banditry, fighting certainly fomented by the actions of repression carried out right now by Garibaldi and the government troops against the peasants. An episode for all it's worth to be told why it is so close to us. Takes place in 1862 in Castellammare, where, after an uprising of peasants, and the Garibaldi Nino Bixio, survivor of the massacre of Bronte, shot a little girl of nine years to intimidate the people. The history of the liberation of Sicily and exemplified in "Freedom" Verga "The charcoal burner, and return to put the handcuffs, she stammered: - Where you taking me? - In jail? - O why? I have not even touched the palm of earth! If they had said there was freedom. " All this certainly does not erase the noble intenzioni dei giovani che persero la vita in quell'impresa e di certo non cancella il sentimento nazionale che dal quel giorno in poi è certo cresciuto molto più di quanto non si voglia far credere. Credo, dunque, sia giunto il momento per poter essere liberi di sentirsi italiani senza per questo sentirsi traditori della nostra storia dai confini più stretti.
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