By Manlio Graziano
This e-book presents a political, financial, sociological, and cultural heritage of Italy that appears at its problems with the duty of nation-building.
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Like all Italian states—too weak to absorb others, too strong to let themselves be absorbed—Milan relied on foreign assistance and entrusted its political ambitions to the army of the king of France Charles VIII. Despite the multiple and successive twists and turns of Ludovic Sforza himself, the Lombard capital lost forever its political independence and, at the same time, lost some of its importance relative to other great cities of the north—Venice, Genoa, Turin—which, themselves, maintained their role as political capitals.
Passive Europeanism” thus seemed to satisfy this demand. 14 This decision was supported not only by the will of the head of government but also by the opening of credit from Europe, and from Germany in particular, which culminated on November 24, 1996, with the readmission of the lira into the European Monetary System, a sort of holding room on the path to the common currency. That is why, little by little, the League lost part of its electoral influence, to the benefit of the parties of “national Europeanism,” which had been hunting on more or less the same ground, geographically and socially.
It would continue, almost without interruption—if not without numerous infidelities—until 1935. “Determined Historical Connections” Among the varied protagonists of the Risorgimento, those who, like Cavour, played an active role managed to do so by rapidly adapting their actions to the actual movements of the international balance of power. Others, like Garibaldi, played a role that was, in truth, passive. Nonetheless, it is the character of Garibaldi who most fascinates those who have written the history of the Risorgimento.
