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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XXII , n° 2, Dicembre 2004 ( Contributi ) pag. 85-110
COLLODI'S PINOCCHIO:
BEYOND BALZAC, WOLFRAM1
CARLO TESTA
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Modern Italy was made (unified, that is), rather quickly and to some extent unexpectedly, between 1859 and 18612. Alluding to the immense cultural and economic heterogeneity of a country that had been, to put it mildly, politically divided for about thirteen centuries, the politician Massimo D'Azeglio thereupon famously quipped that, after Italy had been made, the next challenge was to make Italians3. A century and a half later, we can comfortably (and, to be sure, sometimes uncomfortably) say that D'Azeglio's words were no more than a witty statement of the obvious: in one way or another, the issue of making Italians has been on the cultural table ever since; and much, if not most, of the history of postunification Italy can be read as a variation on that original dilemma, or at least in the light of it.
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