Saturday, February 26, 2011 - Hours 18.00
Council Chamber City of Villa Castelli (Brindisi) - Piazza Municipio
part of the "predatory Saturdays (last Saturday of each month), organized by the" Week Briganti - the other story, "
FEDERICO PIRRO
chief of the headquarters of Rai Bari
presents his book published by Progedit
U.S. to force
certainty that there is a growing feeling that 1861 was not the seal of a process that had played a full and well the delicate preparatory phase, but everything is rushed and driven by the unexpected, that it is like using say, sailed to view. In short, a conquest to achieve and consolidate by any means, barbarized by staggering the damage which the South was another continent, inhabited by people when it was most appropriate, if not indispensable, to give a kind of "rehabilitation", not even with perennial massacres and the laws of war, comparable in form, and perhaps even in the pre-ordained purpose, the genocide of Native Americans. The events, moreover, coincided also in terms of time.
analysis, albeit briefly, the policies implemented by the Bourbons, and in particular by Ferdinand II, one can grasp that, for those times in which absolutism was essential character of governance, aspects emerge clearly positive. It also includes that too long these positive aspects have been kept in silence, with the clear purpose of giving the South wins the historic character of the need to free those people from backwardness and despotism.
There is still wonder if the heavy criticism of the South, often mocking, others were not, and still are, that propaganda, as always in support of the winners and losers of the damage. (Federico Pirro)
Federico Pirro was Head of the "Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", the founding and for many years, Bari, correspondent of the "Republic" editor Rai seat of Bari in 1997 He was awarded the Prix Saint-Vincent in journalism for a series of TV Albanian immigration. Engaged in a long trade union, has served as vice president of the National Press Federation.
Presentation of the magazine
Brigantaggio - Political and social
To all those present will be offered a free copy
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