In the first 45 years of the twentieth century, from Mussolini to Zanardelli and Nitti , in southern Basilicata, and , in particular, in the Community of Valle del Noce, the political debate has not had the radical and hardness found in the Potentino , Melfi and in Matera . The author will research the causes , tracing , for notes, the historical national movement , which gave an impression Zanardelli – who made a trip in the districts Lucan – and Francesco Saverio Nitti , which – between the discourse of Lauria and political meetings to the highest levels, at his villa in Acquafredda di Maratea, with Giovanni Amendola, with emissaries of Gabriele D’Annunzio and Mussolini – he tried to prevent the establishment of the fascist dictatorship .
The author , citing the emigration ” a modifying ” the socio -economic , and political representation elitist , states that the failure of the liberal state followed fascism , which persisted during the inadequacy of legislation and substantial in several areas – including Health – which , in Basilicata, were associated cultural delays . The Church , despite its contradictions, was a reliable reference , at critical moments , for the people of Lucania. Decisive in the fight against fascism was
the leadership of the peasant , who failed in the Walnut Valley , where, as in all of Basilicata , manifested solidarity with the political prisoners , who sometimes had a formative function in the host community .
The collapse of fascism, after the massacres of Rionero and Matera and aerial bombardment of September 1943 – which caused the destruction , deaths and injuries in Lauria and Power – began the reconstruction of the democratic state . And immediately showed the transformation , involving both the fascists – you could not say fascist – and the Communist Party , who, in search of packets of votes , did not disdain to accept even the old hierarchy in its leaders.
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