Sleeping on a Volcano
Five personal European views on the legacy of 1848. A new map of Europe was drawn up after the events of 1848, as independent regions became nation-states. A century-and-a-half later, it is regionalism, not nationalism, that is testing Europe's borders. As calls for regional independence in Italy grow louder, Dacia Maraini offers a timely review of the building of the state of Italy. Repeat