Actually, since 2020 there have been many anti-restriction protests all over Italy, sometimes violent ones, particularly when strict covid curfews were announced a year ago.

Angry demonstrations are sort of a long-time tradition in several of Europe's latin countries - France, Spain, Italy, Portugal. People take to the streets frequently. For example, there were big crowds yesterday in Rome (some say over 100K people) for a union-sponsored anti-fascist public meeting. (Not about covid restrictions, just against rising extreme right discourse by some parties.)

But in all of these countries, afterwards, life just seems to go on as usual.