Many storics have studied deeply the strange story happened to South Italy when it was Kingdom of two Sicilies before the 1861 and the Story of the Unity of Italy. South wasn't retrograde, barbarian, poor and without civilization and culture; was exactly the opposite.
Storics and politician as Antonio Gramsci were witnesses of an epocal of massacres and bloodbaths.
In effect the South, with Neaples in edge, was reach, very much, before the creation of Italian state. It was almost the half of Italy and was much powerful too.
It was a prosperous kingdom (kingdom of Borbone with Ferdinando II)with many records: the extraordinary Reggia of Caserta created by Vanvitelli, the first railway was Napoli-Portici, the first rail gallery was done in South Italy, the third gas public illumination after London and Paris was Neaples, the greatest naval shipyards was Neaples, the Kingdom of Borbone competed with France and United Kingdom for power and richness!
Then the new State created by Garibaldi took a seriuos economical crisis. Peasants rebelled and the army killed that poor rioters. Then was created a bandit story to justify huge massacres of the poor peasants and to justify the fields subtractions and high fees on fields introduced by the new stranger Government of Piemonte (Savoia).
Some bandits there was but was a marginal event. The fees imposed started to create a incredible gap between Nord and South, and the evidences of this were the sudden continous emigration phenomena only from that period on. Also the treasure of the kingdom was steal.
Many speaks of 1 million of pleasant killed, a real civil war.
Maybe this event was the real first cause that started the actual situation named then "South question", that still today have effects: impatience to rules, closing, distrust in general, resignation (because every things cannot change and is blocked from someone or for somewhat), sense of unjustice.
Here is the first video of a italian cultural program of journalist Alberto and Piero Angela to explain that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFX6Bi-Aps
Storics and politician as Antonio Gramsci were witnesses of an epocal of massacres and bloodbaths.
In effect the South, with Neaples in edge, was reach, very much, before the creation of Italian state. It was almost the half of Italy and was much powerful too.
It was a prosperous kingdom (kingdom of Borbone with Ferdinando II)with many records: the extraordinary Reggia of Caserta created by Vanvitelli, the first railway was Napoli-Portici, the first rail gallery was done in South Italy, the third gas public illumination after London and Paris was Neaples, the greatest naval shipyards was Neaples, the Kingdom of Borbone competed with France and United Kingdom for power and richness!
Then the new State created by Garibaldi took a seriuos economical crisis. Peasants rebelled and the army killed that poor rioters. Then was created a bandit story to justify huge massacres of the poor peasants and to justify the fields subtractions and high fees on fields introduced by the new stranger Government of Piemonte (Savoia).
Some bandits there was but was a marginal event. The fees imposed started to create a incredible gap between Nord and South, and the evidences of this were the sudden continous emigration phenomena only from that period on. Also the treasure of the kingdom was steal.
Many speaks of 1 million of pleasant killed, a real civil war.
Maybe this event was the real first cause that started the actual situation named then "South question", that still today have effects: impatience to rules, closing, distrust in general, resignation (because every things cannot change and is blocked from someone or for somewhat), sense of unjustice.
Here is the first video of a italian cultural program of journalist Alberto and Piero Angela to explain that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFX6Bi-Aps
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