Viva Italy ...
Italy robbed and shot in the heart,
Long live Italy, the Italy that never dies ...
Long live Italy, taken by surprise,
Italy murdered by the newspapers and through the concrete,
Italy with dry eyes in the dark night,
live Italy , Italy who is not afraid ...
Long live Italy, Italy of December 12,
Italy with flags, Italy naked as always,
Italy with open eyes in the night sad
Long live Italy, Italy that resists. Francesco De Gregori
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The Head of Government stained repeatedly during his career of crime that, in the presence of an honest people, they would have deserved the condemnation, shame and deprivation of all authority of government. Because the people tolerate and even applauded these crimes? A party for moral insensitivity, some for cunning, one part self-interest and personal gain.
The majority is of course made on behalf of his criminal activities, but he preferred to give his vote to the strong rather than the right. Unfortunately, the Italian people, if you must choose between duty and advantage, despite knowing what would be his duty, always chooses the gain.
So a mediocre man, coarse, vulgar eloquence but easy to effect, is a perfect example of his contemporaries. In an honest people, would be at most the leader of a small party later, a slightly 'ridicule for his manners, his attitudes, his delusions of grandeur, offensive to the common sense of people and causes his emphatic style and shameless. In Italy he became the head of government. And it's hard to find a more complete Italian example.
admirer of force, venal, corruptible and corrupt, a Catholic without believing in God, conceited, vain, fake good-natured, good father, but with many lovers, he uses those whom he despises, surrounded himself with dishonest, of liars, the inept, of profiteering, clever mime, and that have an effect on an audience vulgar, but, like any mime, without its own character, you always imagine to be the person who wants to represent.
Elsa Morante,
