Roberto Martucci book is a work of serious and acute, without a trace of rhetoric. The most remarkable and new, even if it is the least epic consists of observations on the Albertine Statute, on constitutional law and parliamentary and administrative affairs of the Kingdom of Italy just proclaimed.
There would be little need, therefore, to insist on the massacres of Pontelandolfo and Casalduni and generally on the savagery of Stalinist repression in the South (eg. The arrest of the relatives of the robbers and the destruction of their homes, p. 309) to understand, the only constitutional and administrative structure, where it would end the new Italy, 'a new state built on old foundations'. For sixty years of public life will be characterized by the centrality of the Crown, by the weakness of governments elected by a Chamber weak legitimacy, the marginal and ambiguous institutional position of the Senate for life, the mistrust towards the government and local authorities from the cult of centralized prefectural ( p. 341). That a public life so choked should lead to an authoritarian regime, was the natural order of things. But the 1940-45 war did not mark a real break with liberal Italy, and also the sixty years of plenty that is now spent on the entire port the legacy of Italy 'renewed' and unified. Eg., A 'question South 'gangrenous, public administration and sickest inefficient than it has ever been, and a life policy of' corruption, deception, intrigue unprecedented '(judged as a deputy in 1862 the Government of Urbano Rattazzi, p. 369). But worse and more bitter our condition is the fact that today is completely missing the great men, like the first sixty years of life had yet known unit: Giustino Fortunato, Giovanni Verga, Federico De Roberto Gaetano Salvemini ... 
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