Pepto Bismol Two Year Old

Twenty years after the fateful day, came out in 1881 I Malavoglia the novel by Giovanni Verga. The "language issue", this national cultural specialties cooked by Italian intellectuals, traditionally the second repetitive recipes, had just experienced (and somewhat still lived) one of its most acute phases. Related, there were, for once, also make political choices and, in the modern, educated people more than anything makes the bold (or brazen) thought to be important and useful to something, in specie to the community, and so give them some vital precept.

Giovanni Verga, first in Florence, then to Milan, talks about how he speaks and writes as she writes. Toscano is the name of the Sicilian family of which tells the tale of his masterpiece. Realistically: island Toscano is name the applicant. But in the face of national intellectuals and their "language issue", how acrimonious, bitter irony and hidden language that carries its own name, hidden under the 'nciuria Malavoglia ?
And only linguistic irony? Not the sea of \u200b\u200bAci Trezza, but that of Lissa (and it is the third war of independence) that it happens swallow the boy Luke, became Italian, Sicilian actually called Toscano.