"Terroni" Pino is a book of guerrilla April (cultural), which if applied could liberate us from the southern minority to which we have brought up during the hundred and fifty years of Italian unity. Can escape from this prison, the door is not closed. And some began to peek out. need to return to remember who we were. In 1860 the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was from the industrial point of view in third place in the world after Britain and France and even the first in many technical innovations and civil liberties. The Savoy in Piedmont we were dispossessed of everything. An example is what they did to Mongiana, the richest mining district and steel the whole of Italy, located in Calabria. Steel Mongiana made independent of the Kingdom in the production of beams for the construction of suspension bridges in iron and site of the second merchant fleet in the world after English. The arsenal of Castellammare was the largest in the Mediterranean. The Calabrian provided the steel rails for the railway industry Neapolitan Pietrarsa, where production was also driven ships. The steel industry in Calabria was suppressed by the government unit only because it was located in the South, the Italian industry was to be north. A Mongiana, when it was closed, 1,200 workers were working.
The Piedmont hundred and fifty years ago when we invaded the South, they scorched earth (sometimes literally) of everything good that we had. They plundered our cities, raped our women, razed and burned many villages, practiced torture most ruthless, shot without trial or sentence many peasants, imprisoned women and children, opened in the North and extermination camps where they tormented and die many Southern Italians then melting in the lime, the North special laws were invented to destroy us Southerners, was plundered all the gold of the Kingdom (the gold lira Neapolitan constituted two-thirds of the wealth of all Italy Mass together), were stolen works of art fill our museums.
The impoverishment of the South in order to enrich the North was not the result, but the reasons for unity of Italy. Our fathers
robbers tried to respond to these appalling abuses and at times it seemed that they might have the upper hand, but it did not. "We were trampled and there exacted retribution," said a robber for all. The Piedmontese lined up against us in the southern two-thirds of the Italian army. It was carnage. According to some, there were a million casualties among the southerners. But the official story
ignore these truths. The history books that circulate in the schools of all levels are silent. The documents were not destroyed are still hidden. The Southerners, as we walked away from the days when those events happened, they forgot to remove it. "We do not know who we were - -. Writes in April And it happened that the southerners have taken on the prejudices of which they were. And that, for a reverse process of guilt, the victim is set against that of the executioner. "
But something is changing in recent years. They made so many conferences where he discusses the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, of brigandage, fans of the killings, the forgotten history. Specialized publishing houses were born on these topics, such as "Upstream" and "Editorial Giglio." Periodicals are published as "The Bishop", "Two Sicilies", "The Bandit", "Country Napoletana", "New South". On Web sites flourish e blog che fanno informazione militante. Il silenzio-assenso del Meridione sta per finire. Forse siamo condannati all'ottimismo, scrive Aprile.
Le famiglie meridionali si sentono onorate se scoprono di aver avuto fra i loro antenati un brigante. Il termine “brigante” comincia ad assumere una connotazione positiva, come deve essere.
Pino Aprile è nato a Gioia del Colle, la patria del Sergente Romano, in provincia di Bari. Suo padre gli parlava del Romano come di un messia, non come di un delinquente. Era imprendibile, coraggioso, abile in campo aperto, ma più in azioni di commando, trasformò il brigantaggio in guerra civile e legittimista. I piemontesi occupanti dovettero impiegare migliaia fra soldati, carabinieri e guardie national, to be able to isolate, capture and kill Pasquale Domenico Romano, a former officer Bourbon.
Alessandro Romano, a descendant of Pasquale Domenico Romano, collects and preserves memorabilia of the famous brigand chief legitimist revives and re-enactment events and episodes of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. But most still want to find the evidence of lost memory, sifting through the municipal archives, notarial, ecclesiastical libraries. Her uncle Salvatore told him: "What is the history books so 'lies: the Piedmontese have no unified Italy, Piedmont, and we have expanded the Roman Empire that have both ruined. It is true that Garibaldi was greeted as a liberator. It is true that the Bourbons were tyrants. It is not true that there was hunger and misery in the South: the South would not go away no one. So. And Alex is discovering and communicating to others that everything he said was true uncle Salvatore. "We are one and indivisible for Italy - Alessandro claims - was born with the money they took, and with our blood. The federation should have been made before, not after we have all screwed. But I want the truth. We must balance the story. "
Others want to regain momentum. Antonio Ciano, Gaeta, is the founder of the "Party of the South", which is present in Lazio, Campania, Sicily and would like to expand throughout the South in the last local elections in Gaeta, a city-symbol of resistance to the invasion Piedmont, the southern part of Cyan and Civic Party won. "After one hundred forty-seven years we have taken the fortress," proclaimed Ciano. And for the hundred and fifty years of the Unification of Italy, the city of Gaeta has started procedures to ask for compensation for damage to the Savoy of the siege of 1861: two hundred and seventy million Euros. In addition to the bombing that year, the Piedmont to warm destroyed one hundred thousand olive trees. Three hundred mills is not one. And now, concludes Ciano, we are for a united Italy. "Italy was united with our blood, our money stolen and taken to the North. And mo 'we succeed: we have paid. We are Republicans and Unitarians. " La mala
unit has spread its evil effects per centocinquant'anni, dal 1861 ai giorni nostri. I nordisti italiani hanno sfruttato noi meridionali e continuano a farlo. Giustino Fortunato nel 1923 scriveva a Benedetto Croce: «Non disdico il mio unitarismo. Ho soltanto modificato il mio giudizio sugli industriali del Nord. Sono dei porci più porci dei maggiori porci nostri».
Con i soldi del Sud furono pagati i debiti del Nord. Fu demolita un'economia promettente e minata la sua rinascita con meccanismi di preclusione che funzionano ancora dopo centocinquant'anni. Il fascismo prima ed il berlusconismo oggi hanno portato avanti quest'impresa. I soldi dell'intero paese vengono dirottati in una sola parte del paese: da Roma in su. Solo lì si investe in strade, ferrovie, scuole, spese militari, ports, land reclamation. From 1860 to 1998 the Italian state has spent less than two hundred times in Campania in Lombardy, Emilia in less than three hundred times, four times less than in the Veneto. In 1996 it was discovered that the Isveimer, bank created to help the development of the South, funded the Berlusconi's Fininvest, with four hundred and fifty billion. An example of the enormous
closure of a united Italy to the South is the construction of the highway Salerno-Reggio Calabria, from Biblical times. The CGIL has calculated that with the current pace of seven miles a year, the Salerno-Reggio Calabria was completed in 2040. If all goes well. Groups that win jobs are always the same, with subsequent fragmentation into a myriad subcontracts, which are governed by the 'Ndrangheta, which has become the most modern and international mafias. Meet with the gangs, federal, 3 percent degl'importi. Who pays nothing happens. Then the money taken from the South are invested in the North, neither more nor less than as with banks, and Tremonti. Stopping the 'Ndrangheta, perhaps for years, the work would stop on the highway. And this is not convenient to anyone. Not economical to Anas, the major national groups, politics, the same Calabria. Is there a collective interest not to finish the highway. The Salerno-Reggio Calabria, so viewed, is an instrument of education to national and local minority south. What
do? How to stand up to oppression of the northerners who consider us Southern Hottentots "," Iroquois, "" Bedouins, "" worse than Africa, "" degenerate, "" retarded, "" savages, "" degraded "? Pino April a solution is suggested. Return alone. If you should come to the North-South separation, in Italy, the accounts should be made now and should cover the damage and theft and the invasion of one hundred and fifty of the squint was downhill. But what is true of the south, separated from the rest of Italy? Soon. But alone, we can turn our delays in development opportunities. Not having more "to mean" with the income of the North, will immediately become the European country to have greater right agl'incentivi economic development, with an invaluable additional advantage: the money for the South of Europe, would remain the South only after you could put together, but by peers.
But waiting for this radical solution, emigration - writes in April - can be a reservoir of values \u200b\u200b(including economic) wealth, if you pick up the threads with whom, of ours, has shown ability in many areas, elsewhere . And if we can involve them in projects they bring back the South, with the amount and variety of experience. In conclusion
record on one thing I do not agree: the larva of April sympathy for Don Liborio Romano, the man who handed Patù the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the Piedmont. For me, Don Liborio is a bad teacher with Risorgimento Garibaldi, Cavour, Mazzini.
"Terroni" Pino April is a great book to read from all the Southern, with the possible summaries Bignami for the more sluggish.
Rocco Biondi
Pino April Terroni. Everything has been done because the Italians became the South "Southern , Piemme, Milan 2010, pp. 306, € 17.50
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