The view from Vesuvius : Italian culture and the southern question Introduction: How Did Southern Italy Become the South  Imagining the South c. 1750 1850 Italy as Europes South LEurope finit a Naples : Representations of the Mezzogiorno in the Century before Unification II. Representing the South in the Risorgimento c. 1825 1861 The North Looks South 1825 1848 f Bourbons and Barbarism 1848 1860 This Is Not Italy! : Ruling and Representing the South 1860 1861 III. Representing the South in Posunification Italy c. 1870 1885 Terra Vergine: Picturing the South in Illustrazione italiana The Emergence of the Souther Question in Pasquale Villari and Leopoldo Franchetti The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga Conclusion: What the South Enables Us to Say; 1800 1899