Organization and political commitments of the Lucanian pro-dictatorial government, August-September 1860

The author identifies and explains the special ways in which the events of the years 1848-1860 characterized themselves in the Basilicata region, part icularly analyzing its social and political aspects. Radicals, liberal prie sts and moderate Lucanians committed themselves to the invention of innovat ive political and organizational solutions to the region's problems concern ing the distribution of land, the development of agriculture and irrigation , the establishment of a new bureaucratic body in a period in which the abs ence of a legitimate government and the war appeared to be especially promi sing for the future of the southern regions of the Italian peninsula.