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kangolcone posted...

No possible about it. Its a factual statement.

Actually, it was WWII when Mussolini tried to unify all of Italy, which wasn't considered one country until another date. The Italian language was an obscurity from one city-state, spoken by only a few of said location, until Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in that language; and even then the language didn't grow across the region of Italia until a few centuries later. Each city-state, be it Milano, Sicily, Venice, et al., had moved to their own languages during that time. Yet it was Mussolini who moved to make it the official language of the entire land.

If I had my sources handy, I'd share them right this moment, but I'm doing other things. So take what I've said here with a grain of salt.