It was worthy of a try, although it's a shame so many had to die. Italy finally became a Republic in 1946, so good things come true, in the end.🇮🇹🇪🇺💚
Mameli managed to go straight to the point in his message to Mazzini; he should have kept his anthem's lyrics likewise simple. I still don't understand most of them.🤔
Anyway, stripped of all the rhetoric, the story of the Roman Republic (and the Risorgimento, in general) is genuinely compelling. Many people, young and not so young, chose to stake their lives on an idea that had no guarantee of success. There are countless stories of individual bravery that go well beyond Garibaldi and the "usual suspects". Perhaps they were simply reckless, but it is also thanks to that recklessness that Italy is united today.
It was worthy of a try, although it's a shame so many had to die. Italy finally became a Republic in 1946, so good things come true, in the end.🇮🇹🇪🇺💚
Mameli managed to go straight to the point in his message to Mazzini; he should have kept his anthem's lyrics likewise simple. I still don't understand most of them.🤔
Anyway, stripped of all the rhetoric, the story of the Roman Republic (and the Risorgimento, in general) is genuinely compelling. Many people, young and not so young, chose to stake their lives on an idea that had no guarantee of success. There are countless stories of individual bravery that go well beyond Garibaldi and the "usual suspects". Perhaps they were simply reckless, but it is also thanks to that recklessness that Italy is united today.
They were reckless and brave. They make me think of Atticus Finch's words in "To Kill a Mockingbird":
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
In Italy, everything always becomes sooo rhetorical… it’s part of our DNA ;-)
True that!