On "Unification of Italy-Speech by Benigni in Sanremo" read the opinion of the historian Massimo Viglione, a view very different from that expressed by Antonio Socci .
Italy and Italy of comedians and singers of Italian
The new national poet, comic, which must necessarily laugh (who does not ride on his lines is, as we say nowadays, "out"), new organic intellectual suitable for a new era of rampant anything, has once again enhanced in the new temple of the Italian state (the altar of the fatherland in reality it never was), the "New Italy", that was born 150 years ago.
And now, just the day later, our government has given: it has finally declared that March 17 will be a national holiday (but at the expense of the traditional Nov. 4, not too upset Confindustria). How anyone can understand, a few thoughts, as fast, appear to be necessary. Our people have had several Vati over the centuries, indeed millennia. Virgil and Horace, when I ruled the world, though the Italian state did not exist, but Italy was the heart of the most important supra-national empire of all time, and forge the right of Western civilization, the poet par excellence, the Divine Poet the greatest human genius of all time, who left us the most lofty and unattainable opera di tutti i tempi, che ha segnato per sempre la formazione della nostra lingua, che ci ha ricordato il senso spirituale, morale e anche politico di questa fugace vita in attesa della futura eternità: tutto questo quando l’Italia era divisa in decine e decine di Stati e staterelli, poleis e feudi, ma pienamente unita in quello spirito religioso e civile che Dante ha colto come nessun altro uomo ha mai saputo fare con la propria epoca; Torquato Tasso, molto più che l’Ariosto, seppe incarnare il senso di una nuova epoca che poneva Dio e la Chiesa Cattolica e la civiltà ad essa connessa nel centro del cuore degli italiani, producendo alcuni fra i più grandi artisti di tutti i tempi; eppure l’Italia era divisa in Stati in parte subject to foreign monarchs, so Foscolo, deluded and complainer servant of an Italian genius but hypocritical and denied that his armies and the French had promised freedom that brought death, robbery, oppression, and insult to Italian identity, and after him Leopardi, a brilliant singer with a vision of life alien to Italians, and Manzoni, operator of a reconciliation between the romantic feeling bold and revolutionary core of Italian Christian secular order, and yet Italy was still divided in 7 states, which However, only one was now subject to an alien, and finally the unification of Italy Vati, Carducci enhancer Satan, Pascoli hope in bath socialista e D’Annunzio, fautore del “nuovo italiano”, dimentico del bene e del male.
Poi i vati sono finiti, con la morte della cultura italiana, o meglio, della Cultura, schiacciata dalla guerra civile, dall’odio partigiano, dall’affarismo della rinascita, dal compromesso politico e culturale con il sole dell’avvenire, che ci ha portato le foibe e il Sessantotto, il terrorismo e l’odio sociale, lo statalismo e il radicalismo chic dispregiatore senza limiti di tutto ciò che per millenni è stato costitutivo della grandezza vera e irraggiungibile della civiltà italiana. Ma l’Italia ora è unita… Adesso, finalmente, abbiamo di nuovo un vate, dopo quasi un secolo. Roberto Benigni. E un nuovo tempio nazionale: il teatro Ariston di Sanremo, con fiori, musica e colori, e con tanto di vallette, cantanti e comici. E un pubblico sempre plaudente. E un conduttore cantante che voleva festeggiare l’unità cantando “Bella ciao”…
Da Virgilio a Benigni, passando per Dante. Il meraviglioso itinerario della storia italiana. Ma l’Italia è ora unificata da 150 anni. E gli italiani sono uniti? Quando ieri sera Benigni ha più volte (in maniera spiritosa, s’intende) ironizzato su Berlusconi e le minorenni, quanti milioni di italiani a casa si sono nei loro cuori sentiti uniti? Quanti milioni di italiani hanno magari pensato a Vittorio Emanuele II, esaltato the post-communist Benigni as the "Gentleman King", which one evening and one well was done by his servants to bring in his bedroom females taken from the brothels of Turin? (To say nothing of his love affairs with thirteen-year and down from there ... as we would call today a grown man who goes with a thirteen year old? "Gentleman" or otherwise?).
When Benigni said the Bourbon oppressed in the south while a monstrous thank God today the South is "free", how many South have shared? When Benigni said Garibaldi and Cavour were sacrificed dying poor in Italy, many Italians saw in him a prophet? Or how many have seen only a pathetic barzellettaio? If the operator of the transmission-worship of the "New Italy" had actually sang "Hello Beautiful", how many Italians would feel united? And in that respect, I pose a question.
In fact, two: 1) why in these 150 years we have made a national holiday on November 4, Oct. 28 (under Fascism), April 25, June 2, and never on March 17, perhaps the only party sensible in itself, since it is the date of establishment of national unity? How come we always celebrated it all and more but never unification?
2) For what reason, to enter March 17 (one-off, of course) this year we removed the 4th of November? This little party divides Italians, both because most of them, especially the younger ones even know what it is, and because it remains the only major military victory of a united Italy (with foreign help, of course ), so very few people in their heart feel like a party that divides and wounds (including these few, the writer).
would have been much more sense to skip April 25, the feast known to all, and, either openly or in secret hearts, the vast majority of Italians suffered unwillingly if not despised as fomenting of hatred and violence: a holiday that reminds us - Directly or indirectly - to the dictatorship, the military defeat, the "death of the fatherland", the civil war, the hatred between brothers and friends, executions, raids, rape, revenge of the mass extermination camps and sinkholes, ruthless invaders on native soil, the lie of a "war of liberation" that was just a war in the service of foreign invaders, either side of the fence. Feast of the civil division for excellence, more than any other holiday that reminds us how we are divided, as Italy is unified never managed to "make Italians."
Who wrote these reflections do so in defiance of value of national unity. He does it as a denunciation of the lie of the Risorgimento. National unity is one thing, another is the unity of the Italians.
Just to have unified Italy in the way that was unified, without popular participation, against the Church and religion of the Italians, winning with bestial brutality of the southern half of the peninsula and then millions of people on board for the new world , and more, is the root cause, along with historical lies perpetuated in these 150 years, until last night, the fact that the Italian people remains the most internally divided among all the peoples of the West.
Here cosa festeggiamo in questi giorni: il fallimento dell’unità degli italiani, come ogni dì ognuno di noi può facilmente verificare. Andatelo a dire al nuovo vate della nuova Italia: ma penso che sia inutile, ora sarà troppo distratto contando la vergognosa montagna di soldi che gli hanno dato (proprio coloro che ogni giorno accusano il governo di non pensare alle difficoltà quotidiane degli italiani) per dirci che il Meridione gemeva sotto i Borbone mentre oggi è libero e prospero e che Garibaldi e Cavour sono morti poveri. Poveri come lui.
Articolo pubblicato sul sito Libertà e Persona
