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Italians still at odds over unification of country 150 years on

ITALY: Plans for official anniversary of union see old wounds reopened From Philip Willan in Rome

IT was the Austrian statesman Prince Klemens von Metternich who famously observed: "Italy is a geographical expression". That was in a letter written in 1849, 12 years before Italy emerged as a unified state.