As a result, in just three months GDP lost more than during the whole 2008-2013 period, which includes the double-dip recession related to the global financial crisis and the euro-area debt crisis, which had already been the worst slump in peacetime since Italy’s unification in 1861.
The second reason why we went so far back in the past is that, since the 1990s,  Italy’s GDP growth has been extremely weak.