Italiani per forza (?) Un nuovo sguardo al Risorgimento meridionale

Abstract

Although 160 years have passed since the unification of Italy, there is still a sharp economic and social gap between North and South of the country. Through a national research project aimed at investigating literacy conditions in southern Italian regions (PRIN 2017: Literacy and Development in Southern Italy from Italian Unification to the Giolittian Era. 1861-1914), the authors of this essay, starting from some stereotypes described in the book by Dino Messina, Italians forcefully, that have supported the reasons of one or the other part of the Country, try to explain the reasons for the gap between the North and the South of Italy. Discuss these topics in this essay Antonia Criscenti, Livia Romano (The Southern Risorgimento in the film), Silvia A. Scandurra (How technical and vocational education have (not) operated), Giusy Denaro (Sicily in the surveys).