Gramsci e la Questione meridionale. Genesi, edizioni e interpretazioni

Alcuni temi della quistione meridionale is the only organic essay of Antonio Gramsci: written in 1926, after almost 100 years, it has aroused several interpretations, theoretical debates and political polemics. The following paper will analyse the origins of this essayand issues linked to it, particularly focusing on supposed lacks and on causes that led to a delay of the first publishing. These events influenced the succeeding interpretations of topics it contains. Therefore, the aim of the article is to analyse the essay's pubblications in Italy during XX century, where it has been acknowledged and studied into three big historiographical traditions: the southernism and the gramscian ones, and, in addition, the one concerning the history of Pci.