Italy's Wars of Unification (Risorgimento) and following trade measures had failed to iron out inequalities between its industrialised North and agricultural South - the needs of both could not simultaneously be satisfied by Giolitti's liberal politics.
Intregul proces de reunificare (Risorgimento) nu a reușit să distrugă inegalitățile dintre nordul industrializat și sudul agrar – nevoile celor două regiuni nu puteau fi sadisfăcute simultan de politicile liberale ale lui Giolitti.