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Postunitary Italy, far from presenting a well-defined face, is the unstable combination of some particular characteristics. The first of these is the fragile dialectic between the various geographical pieces that make it up: the “thousand bell towers,” the regional particularities, the use of dialect as a badge of local identity, the relations between the center and the periphery—most particularly, between the north and the south, ever a source of jealousies, haggling, and friction.
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Graziano, M. (2010). How Premature Development Became a Factor of Backwardness. In: The Failure of Italian Nationhood. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113060_3
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