Over the past hundred years, many of Italy’s pivotal changes — good and bad — began in Milan: socialism, Great War fever, Fascism, the resistance to Fascism, the economic boom of the ’60s, the political turmoil of the ’70s, the Clean Hands anti-corruption campaign, the populist Northern League. And now, this young, lively and colorful renaissance. Milan’s challenge is to spread its current success to the rest of the country. Show that there’s an entrepreneurial spirit across Italy, and that the young people who flock to Milan to find it might be persuaded to stay at home, if they could find the same opportunities. Give a chance to the smart new Italians that fill the piazzas on these spring nights. They’ll take care of it.
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