Unified Italy was fragile. The prime minister famously said: "We have made Italy; now we must make Italians."
Plan a history trip →North vs. South divide (already deep). Poverty drove mass emigration (14 million Italians left between 1876–1915, mostly to the Americas). Brigandage in the south (the "Brigands War" killed more than the Risorgimento). Colonialism in Africa (Libya 1911, Ethiopia 1936). WWI (1915–18): 600,000 Italian soldiers dead, mostly in the Alpine front against Austria. 1922: Mussolini’s March on Rome, Fascism begins.