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Lazzarino Del Grosso Anna |
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Francesco Ferrara di fronte al problema dell'unità | ||
in Storia e Politica , Anno III, n. 2, Atti/Proceeding "L'identità culturale della Sicilia risorgimentale. Atti del convegno per il bicentenario della nascita di Emerico Amari e di Francesco Ferrara , 2011 | ||
During the Sicilian revolution in 1848-49, Francesco Ferrara, as journalist and representative of the “Sicilian nation”, supported the cause of the independence of Sicily and its federal union to other “parts” of the Italian peninsula that were emancipating themselves from their tyrants. Aiming at an Italian federal state allied with the United States of America, Ferrara was in favour of a free “union” and criticized the Piemontese unification of Italy. During his long exile in Turin and Pisa, he kept on promoting a self-governed Sicily, by proposing unsuccessfully to Cavour to establish a federal government that was to save a large part of Sicilian autonomy. In 1861 Ferrara accepted the unitary solution and became a loyal servant of it, although his private correspondence sometimes shows his disapproval and his Sicilian “patriotism”. | ||