Barry Unsworth

A reluctant country

The unification of Italy 150 years ago was a terrible mistake, according to David Gilmour, imposing a national state on a diverse collection of people with little sense of patria. But Barry Unsworth thinks it’s too early to cry failure

  • The Pursuit of Italy: Italians and their Diversities from the Romans to the Present

    David Gilmour

    Allen Lane, pp. 446

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