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And northern Italy is the "good bit": by and large, the further down south into the mezzogiorno you go, the worse it gets. I was once in Palermo, the largest c

And northern Italy is the "good bit": by and large, the further down south into the mezzogiorno you go, the worse it gets. I was once in Palermo, the largest city in Sicily, which has buildings that were bombed in WW2 and have not been repaired. An American couple wandered past, looking for the famed Piazza Pretoria: they were actually on it, they just didn't realize the moldy pool with a boot floating in it was the (broken) fountain landmark they were looking for.

southerndrift 8y ago
Some time ago, I came across the Wikipedia page of Naples [1]: * >The University of Naples, the first university in Europe dedicated to training secular administrators, * >Naples became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 as part of the Italian unification, ending the era of Bourbon rule. The kingdom of the Two Sicilies had been wealthy, and as many as 443.2 million ducats were taken from the old kingdom's banks as a contribution to the new Italian treasury. * >by 1884, Naples was still the largest city in Italy with 496,499 inhabitants, or roughly 64,000 per square kilometre (more than twice the population density of Paris) It's funny that part of the north believes that they were better off without the south[2]. It would be funny if it were actually the other way round. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord
- eecc 8y ago
  Several claim the “national unification” was more a colonial effort than anything else. But, Mazzini and Garibaldi were also interested in ridding the south of their Baroni and Viceré, who thrived in the misery and plight of the masses that toiled to support their luxuries
- iguy 8y ago
  > It's funny that part of the north believes that they were better off without the south[2]. Or perhaps rather, that they would now be better off. In 1861 Switzerland was a bunch of poor shepherds with goitre. But the world has changed.

southerndrift 8y ago

Some time ago, I came across the Wikipedia page of Naples [1]: * >The University of Naples, the first university in Europe dedicated to training secular administrators, * >Naples became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 as part of the Italian unification, ending the era of Bourbon rule. The kingdom of the Two Sicilies had been wealthy, and as many as 443.2 million ducats were taken from the old kingdom's banks as a contribution to the new Italian treasury. * >by 1884, Naples was still the largest city in Italy with 496,499 inhabitants, or roughly 64,000 per square kilometre (more than twice the population density of Paris) It's funny that part of the north believes that they were better off without the south[2]. It would be funny if it were actually the other way round. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord

eecc 8y ago
Several claim the “national unification” was more a colonial effort than anything else. But, Mazzini and Garibaldi were also interested in ridding the south of their Baroni and Viceré, who thrived in the misery and plight of the masses that toiled to support their luxuries
iguy 8y ago
> It's funny that part of the north believes that they were better off without the south[2]. Or perhaps rather, that they would now be better off. In 1861 Switzerland was a bunch of poor shepherds with goitre. But the world has changed.