“At worst, the centralizing effort to remove, where possible, homonymy — and antinomy — of a Peninsula that had always been subdivided into local communities and tiny States, gave vent to an unrestrained toponymical revision, that binned millennial heritage in the name of celebratory intentions, patriotic Risorgimental evocations and moralistic efforts. The two-year period that follows Unification can be defined as a period characterized by "a sort of gutting of street names, which ... disfigured to a certain degree the topographic structure of build-up areas", redrawing streets and squares, choosing heroes and models and consciously ignoring others.” NationalismItalyNational ConsciousnessItalian HistoryToponymyRisorgimentoHistory Of ItalyItalian Nationalism Book:Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities Source: Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities