Northern League's surge stems from a millennium of history.(World)(Briefing/Europe)

The Washington Times | April 28, 1996| | Copyright

The dramatic success of the secessionist Northern League in last week's Italian elections is no freak result of protest votes but reflects deep and widening divisions rooted far back in Italian history.

Italy was one of the last of Europe's modern nation-states to unify. While Britain, France, Russia, Spain and other nations were unified from the Middle Ages or earlier, the Risorgimento movement, a combination of secular democracy and liberal nationalism, only succeeded in unifying Italy in 1859-61.

Then the northern kingdom of Piedmont, ruled by the House ...

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