La tentazione autoritaria. L'Itala liberale e il governo dei migliori

In this essay argues that the Italy of the end of the millennium and the sunset of the nineteenth century were united by an authoritarian temptation. A shiny, modern and reactionary political project of the Government of the best that you can find in Southern Italy, and focus on the debate, his lab and in the great war his testbed. A generation of great nationalist intellectuals (and meridionalisti) began looking for an alternative political model to the liberal-democrat, much more suitable, according to them, the transformations that modernity had started in Italy and Europe.