![\"\"](\"\/images\/pin_ferrari.gif\" "\\"Pinocchio")
\nBuongiorno amici e buon inizio settimana!<\/p>\n
\nBuongiorno amici e buon inizio settimana!<\/p>\n
7:30 am in Rome, I am having tea and sharing an interesting book with you:<\/p>\n
The Pinocchio Effect, On Making Italians, 1860-1920<\/a><\/p>\n “Soon after the disparate states of the Italian peninsula unified in the 1860s to create a single nation, the nationalist Massimo D\u2019Azeglio is said to have remarked, \u201cWe have made Italy, now we have to make Italians.\u201d The Pinocchio Effect draws on a remarkably broad array of sources to trace this making of a modern national identity in Italy, a subject that remains strikingly understudied in the English-speaking world of Italian studies.”<\/p>\n I think this subject is understudied and underestimated also in the Italian-speaking world!<\/p>\n Pinocchio is a character created in 1881 by the Italian writer Collodi. On CyberItalian we chose this famous Italian puppet to guide you in the Lessons<\/a>. Why?<\/p>\n Because Pinocchio represents the idea of “personal growth” at all levels (intellectual and emotional). And personal growth is a very important factor in any aspect of life.<\/p>\n Hopefully Italians will remember this, as Italy nowadays is struggling with a modern concept of state, democracy, journalism, unity, politics and quality of life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Buongiorno amici e buon inizio settimana! 7:30 am in Rome, I am having tea and sharing an interesting book with you: The Pinocchio Effect, On Making Italians, 1860-1920 “Soon after the disparate states of the Italian peninsula unified in the 1860s to create a single nation, the nationalist Massimo D\u2019Azeglio is said to have remarked,\u2026 Leggi tutto »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[800,799],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-culture","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberitalian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}