Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
O my country, I see the walls and arches and columns and statues
el'erme
towers of our ancestors;
but I do not see the glory, I do not see
laurel and iron laden with
Whence our fathers of old. Or made helpless, naked
forehead and bare chest monsters. Alas
how many wounds, which stripes
that blood! oh I see what you,
Formosissima woman ! I ask the sky and the world
: say you say;
who reduced it to that? And this is worse,
chains that has both her arms laden, so that scattered her hair
without a veil and sits on the ground
neglected and forlorn,
hiding his face between his knees and cries.
Weep, whence you that well, my Italy,
born to conquer nations and the auspicious fate and history ... (vv. 1-20)
el'erme
towers of our ancestors;
but I do not see the glory, I do not see
laurel and iron laden with
Whence our fathers of old. Or made helpless, naked
forehead and bare chest monsters. Alas
how many wounds, which stripes
that blood! oh I see what you,
Formosissima woman ! I ask the sky and the world
: say you say;
who reduced it to that? And this is worse,
chains that has both her arms laden, so that scattered her hair
without a veil and sits on the ground
neglected and forlorn,
hiding his face between his knees and cries.
Weep, whence you that well, my Italy,
born to conquer nations and the auspicious fate and history ... (vv. 1-20)
From To Italy ( 1818) of G. Leopardi
And while I do not see any sense in celebrate the woman, I read and reread these verses of Leopardi and discover all the modernity.
who reduced Italy in this state?
Offense vilified and is similar to many women who are humiliated and outraged.
Leggo.
It takes me a strong emotion to think of everything that Italy has suffered and as a mother who has endured everything to unite us, because we felt like other peoples strong and united in a common destiny.
Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio (1571-1610)
grieving Magdalene
Who so low? I wonder!.
If only we could consider all that has suffered so as not to be "a geographical expression."
Italy has a history that excites anyone who came up with the humility of thought, that none of you be offended, because we remain in its sacredness that every man must feel worthy of the name as its own wealth to be delivered to posterity.
Italy is the only real woman and that we can celebrate the March 8 and the only way I feel this holiday makes sense, because it forces us to think, to reflect on the Status of Women, to which Italy that mirror the centuries divided, looted, humiliated taught us to resist and fight. In its history there is the condition of the woman who carries the weight of his dignity and that he does live with vigor and firmness but without parties and without flowers.
I want then, and I think I speak for many women, dedicated on March 8, Italy, the Italy of the Risorgimento, the auspice of our rebirth.
Anna Lanzetta
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