# Book 6: Via Nova 1961 ‘Straliani

- Link: https://italiajoe.com/book-6-after-italia-1-02-03-0/
- Published: 2024-05-17T05:39:06+00:00
- Author: Joseph Simonetti

_For__
 
Nonno Giuseppe & Nanna Caterina
 
Nonno Giuseppe & Nanna Maria
 
We came
back to walk a while along the same paths you followed.

Whilst the North makes progress in political and economic cohesion, Calabria remains
mired in Bourbon and French occupations’ feudalism. The Mazzini-inspired adventurer
Garibaldi unites Italia under the remnants of the Austrian vassal Kingdom in Piedmont.
Not everyone is pleased with the ‘fait accompli’. Laws to curb the legacy brigandage
unfairly burden peasants; ‘mafia’ becomes synonymous with banditry. Italia’s politics
are driven by European well-being and emerging liberal and socialist ideologies.
The Catholic Church realises that secular governance is inevitable. Expansionist
miscalculations in Ethiopia lead to defeat at Adwa. The Vogels become part of the
Volksdeuchen colonisation of the Balkans. Mussolini emerges on the sidelines of 
the impending war. Giuseppe Simonetti transitions from a pastoral lessor to an owner.
The Fascist’s ascendency leads to renewed expansionary adventurism in North Africa.
Giuseppe Attisani joins the road construction gangs in Abyssinia and buys the Pontana
farm, others begin to emigrate. Churchill meanders through British colonial wars
and politics. At times he stumbles but will influence Italia’s future. After Simonetti’s
emigrate, Italia becomes mired in a politico still unable to maintain social balance,
left-wing terrorism takes hold. The 21st Century presents challenges to the Democracies
of the West. We’re in it together.