Centrifugal forces

摘要

"It an a Florentine," declares an ac-rnquaintance of your correspondent. "ArnTuscan? With difficulty. An Italian? Never!"rnAs Italy approaches the 150th anniversary of its unification next year, it appears that quite a few of his compatriots harbour similar feelings. Two polls published this week found 10-11% of Italians thought the unification of their country was a mistake. In one, conducted for Corriere della Sera, over half of respondents said Italians were not a "single people". The other poll, for La Repubblica, found that 15% of Italians, including 10% of southerners, would be happy for the rich north to break away.