samedi 8 mai 2010

Garibaldi à la triste figure

Giuseppe Garibaldi, détesté au Nord, détesté au Sud, aimé au milieu ?


Grand héros de l'unité italienne et du progressisme rénunis, la figure de Giuseppe Garibaldi est un des personnages incontournables du XIXe siècle italien durant lequel une figure géographique est devenue un figure historique.

Durant longtemps, les seules voix critiques contre l'homme à la chemise rouge furent celles des patriotes du Sud qui considéraient que l'unification s"était faite au profit du seul Nord et que l'Italie méridionale avait tout perdu dans cette affaire.

Aujourd'hui, ce sont les hommes du Nord, notamment ceux regroupés autour de la Ligue du Nord qui maudissent cette unité italienne manigancée par bande de Savoyards assoiffés de pouvoir avec l'aide des discrets cénacles du pouvoir occulte.

Cet article de Peter Popham publié ce matin dans les colonnes de l'Independent rappelle le contexte actuel de Garibaldi en Italie.



Le Sud, pays en retard ? Pas certain.


150 years after uniting it, Garibaldi divides Italy

Giuseppe Garibaldi's status as a national hero has been questioned as Italy celebrates unification.


Italy, Metternich said, was "only a geographical expression", but 150 years ago the greatest revolutionary the peninsula ever produced set about proving him wrong.

In the most dramatic episode in the long story of Italy's unification, Giuseppe Garibaldi, set sail from Genoa with two small steamers crammed with red-shirted comrades from northern Italy. They were known as the Mille, "the thousand", and they sailed south to conquer Sicily. In less than a month, and against all odds, they had seized Palermo. Soon Garibaldi was master of Sicily and had crossed over to the mainland to continue the rout.

This event has long been regarded as a crucial moment in the creation of the Italian nation, celebrated in romantic paintings and public monuments. The anniversary this week was the starting gun for a whole year of celebrations as Italy looks back on its short but tumultuous history as an independent nation. Organisers promise four major exhibitions and "an extraordinary programme of culture, sport and entertainment". The central exhibition, in Turin, examines Italy's independent history.



Garibaldi, un héros ?

The only problem is that, despite the exhortations of the head of state, President Giorgio Napolitano, and lectures from on high by the establishment media, Italians appear conflicted about even marking the anniversary.

The Northern League's founder and leader, Umberto Bossi, called the celebrations "useless things." The party's newspaper demanded rhetorically, "The unity of Italy – what's there to celebrate?" and described the birth of the unitary state as "contrary to nature and history."

Another senior figure, Robert Cota, went so far as to describe Garibaldi as "a criminal who sowed death and destruction".

The League began life as a coven of extremists in the prosperous north, inveighing against "Big Thief Rome" and demanding secession from the supposedly blood-sucking south.



Les crimes de Garibaldi en Sicile

Silvio Berlusconi brought League members into his first government in 1994, and though they pulled the plug on that fragile administration, today they are his strongest coalition allies. They may have backtracked on their secession demands but they never tire of reminding people that the unity of the nation should not be taken for granted while they are around.

President Napolitano was on the defensive when he travelled to Genoa this week to honour the Thousand. "To celebrate the unity of Italy is not a waste of time or money," he declared. He urged Italians to show "a stronger sense of Italy and of being Italian".

And he defended Garibaldi, long regarded as the national hero but recently, as he put it, "incomprehensibly the object of gross denigration by new detractors".

"Let us incite ourselves," he said, "to have a bit more national pride."

The President's problem is that, a century and a half after the founders of the unified state set about, as they put it, "making Italians," the work is still only half done.

In Garibaldi's day, all the peoples of the peninsula spoke the dialect of their own region, so when the red shirts turned up on the shores of Sicily, they were regarded as scarcely less foreign than the British naval sailors who backed them up.

National wars, a national education system and nationwide television helped to forge a national language, but dialects are still alive. Pride in one's home town and its culture and food is still far more commonly encountered than pride in being Italian.

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