Excerpt from Fragments of Political Science on Nationalism and Inter-NationalismThe process of nationalizing the many dialects and jargons had begun in some countries - geographically marked as countries, but wholly unnationalized otherwise - at an earlier time. Dante, singing in the Tuscan dialect, raised it thus to the dignity of the language for all Italy, as later Luther by his own translation of the Bible, made his dialect the German language, and Dante, the greatest poet of his country, which he calls Italia mia oli dolor ostello (the very inn of grief cause torn to pieces and lacking her destined nationality, be came thus the first nationalizer of Italy in the thirteenth and at the beginning of the fourteenth century - five hundred years before Cavour, and now only has Germany made a vigorous movement toward her political nationalization, in which may Heaven bless her leaders' boldest acts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.