Postunitary

Inkwell by Grazia Deledda, image from the warehouse of the Nuoro Ethnographic Museum, from Sardegna DL

The creation of the Kingdom of Italy pushed Sardinia even more towards the cultural center of gravity of the Italian peninsula. Participation in the unification and creation of this new nation created a situation of extreme dynamism on the island, but it also highlighted its structural weaknesses from a socio-economic point of view.

Material pictorial work by the artist Italo Medda, ca. 1996), from Sardegna Digital Library

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Sardinian culture at the crossroads

On the other hand, membership in a unitary state provided advantages. In particular, elementary school became a widespread reality and literature began, slowly but surely, to become a common heritage.

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Literature in Italian

In particular, in the late 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century, Italian became the main language of culture, as well as of official politics. Spanish is now a faded memory, while the Sardinian is reced...

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Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda is the best known Sardinian writer in the world, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. He was born in Nuoro on September 27, 1871 from a wealthy family. He provided for his cultural training, d...

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Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci was born in Ales (OR) on January 22, 1891. After graduating from elementary school (1902) and studying privately in Ghilarza, in 1905 he enrolled in the high school gymnasium in Santuluszu. After obtainin...

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Political commitment

The circumstances related to the conflict of 1915-18, and the tumultuous post-war period, had a significant impact on Sardinia. Thanks to recruitment on a territorial basis, a hundred thousand recalled islanders had the...

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Alghero, historic photo of the train station, from Sardegna Digital Library

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Twentieth-century travelers

In April 1899, in the presence of Umberto I and Margaret of Savoy, the foundation stone of the town hall was laid in Cagliari, while the monument to the King of Italy was completed in Sassari. They are symbolic images of...

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