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“Alla fine di tutto questo caos c’erano gli esseri umani, con le loro paure e i loro desideri. Tanto diversi per provenienza, religione e razza, quanto uguali nell’animo. Bianchi e neri, su quella spiaggia rocciosa, si confondevano, stretti nel loro desiderio in un domani migliore.”
― Storia di un numero
― Storia di un numero
“At worst, the centralizing effort to remove, where possible, homonymy — and antinomy — of a Peninsula that had always been subdivided into local communities and tiny States, gave vent to an unrestrained toponymical revision, that binned millennial heritage in the name of celebratory intentions, patriotic Risorgimental evocations and moralistic efforts. The two-year period that follows Unification can be defined as a period characterized by "a sort of gutting of street names, which ... disfigured to a certain degree the topographic structure of build-up areas", redrawing streets and squares, choosing heroes and models and consciously ignoring others.”
― Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
― Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
“The need for certainty, homogeneity, rationalization and good road traffic organization, as well as the need to clearly identify the areas of an urban centre, took a back seat in respect to prevailing nationalization, driven by the need to reduce minorities and to make the State's cultural structure almost monistic. Toponymy became a cultural asset, inevitably losing its function as a "historical turnaround, or scientific furnishings that might be compared, in the order of physical events, to the different deposits studied by geologists".”
― Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
― Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
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