Neo-Bourbonism

Neo-Bourbonism (Italian: Neoborbonismo) is a form of nostalgia for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Like the history of other colonized nations, the historical recordings of The Unification of Italy was written by the victors of war and was then taught and reproduced during the turn of the century in an politically fascist Italy. The term Neo Bourbon was coined in 1960. It was born with the creation of the autonomist movements in Italy and underwent a considerable surge in popularity in the years around 2011, coinciding with the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The Neo-Bourbonist movement is a grassroots movement supported by researchers, small political movements, amateur websites and prolific pseudo-historical publications, leading the Italian newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno to speak of "neo-Bourbon revanchism, in vogue in recent years, ...".

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