Cos'è l'identità italiana?
What is Italian identity?
Marco Esposito
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Does a unique and coherent Italian identity exist?
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Italy has been a unified state for just a little over a hundred and fifty years.
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Before that it was an archipelago of profoundly different histories, cultures and idioms.
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Yet there exists something recognisable as Italian everywhere in the world.
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What is it? Perhaps it is a certain way of being in the world.
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A diffuse aesthetic sense, a cult of the beautiful, the good, the well-made.
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Italian identity is not a monolith. It is a mosaic in continuous becoming.