Sure that Italy is on the decline economically, politically and from a cultural point of view? Is our country truly condemned to a modernity that is imperfect, unfinished, deprived of that which Leopardi called "società stretta" (a sense of responsibility, a sense of honour, pleasure of conversation) and therefore incapable of being "normal"?

This seems to be the resigned self-perception of many of our countrymen, of a substantial part of the political class and especially within our humanistic culture of public intellectuals and influential thinkers. Yet for the international market Italy continues to be enjoyably modern – stylish, "neo-artigianale", hedonistic – an opposite to Anglo-Saxon modernity. Almost a counter-culture to hegemony.

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