The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians, 1860-1920
by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Chicago University Press, published in 2008
"Soon after the disparate states of the Italian peninsula unified in the 1860s to create a single nation, the nationalist Massimo D’Azeglio is said to have remarked, “We have made Italy, now we have to make Italians.” 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." (Publisher)
The book won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies
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