By Niccolò Graffio

"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The travesty that produced the modern country of Italy worked to suppress in no small way the native cultures of Southern Italy, but it could not destroy them. As the advocates of Risorgimento moved to center the political life of the nascent state around Rome (and the economic life in the north) they likewise tried to stifle the art, music and literature of Due Sicilie by denigrating them as 'inferior'.

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