Resumen de La legittimazione dello Stato italiano negli scritti di Guido Dorso. Crisi del liberalismo e avvento del fascismo visti dalla provincia meridionale
The Italian intellectual Guido Dorso (1892-1947) was an authoritative observerof the political and institutional crisis that happened in Italy within the ending ofliberalist age and the beginning of fascist dictatorship.Starting from his writings and his networks between 1914 and 1925, this essayreconstructs his own point of view on this complex moment of the Italian history.Dorso’s analysis took as basis the enduring problem of underdevelopment of Italiansouthern regions. His own reflections focused in particular in the limits of the ItalianState-building and its consequences especially for the Italian South: political elitewithout turnover and low participation of the masses in the country’s political life.Dorso participated in the debate to support democratic interventionism to bringItaly into the war in 1915. In the years following the Great War, he became an attentiveanalyst of the success of mass parties in the Italian political scene, illustratingthe decay of liberalism and the advent of the dictatorship. He did this first playing aleading role in the lively political press scene in his hometown, and then, becoming anesteemed collaborator of the Turin based liberal-democrat intellectual Piero Gobettiand his publishing project of «Rivoluzione liberale».
