Italy is a classic country for tourists. It is simply impossible to see all the sights of the once mighty Roman Empire in a short period of time. Therefore, those who have been here at least once will strive to return...
Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) According to Dictionaryforall, Trieste is located in northeastern Italy on the border with Slovenia. This is a major port, operating since 1719, and the only place in the Adriatic where the natural depth of the sea...
The capital Rome. The local time GMT +1 (-2 hours to Moscow). Currency The monetary currency of Italy is the euro. 1 euro = 100 euro cent. Credit cards Visa, Mastercard, Carte Blanche, Diner’s Club are accepted for payment in hotels,...
Aosta Valley According to topschoolsintheusa, the delightful Aosta Valley region, which borders France and Switzerland, is home to Europe’s highest mountains – Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Cervino (Matterhorn) and Gran Paradiso. The Gran Paradiso National Park is a popular excursion area...
“All roads lead to Rome”. The most recognizable places of the Eternal City are the Roman amphitheater Colosseum, St. Peter’s Cathedral, the Pantheon, the Sistine Chapel, the Forum, St. Angel’s Castle, the Vatican enclave state. Milan is a city of fashionistas,...
Central Italy During the 6th millennium BC, when the whole peninsula was already intensely inhabited, central Adriatic Italy still appears linked to epipaleolithic forms of hunting-gathering: numerous small settlements have been identified, in which the productive economy is acquired with different...
According to ELAINEQHO, the understanding of the Neolithic phenomenon in Italy is closely linked to the appearance of new economic forms during the course of the 8th millennium BC in areas of the Near East, considered to be of primary onset....
Starting from the nineties some Italian filmmakers (Monicelli, Scola and Risi), who had been among the main architects of the Italian comedy, continued their activity, albeit in an irregular way; while among the comedians who had made their debut in the...
The Italian state budget, eliminated starting from 1926 the two accessory categories of railways constructions and round trips, is made up of two parts: actual income and expenditure and income and expenditure for the movement of capital. However, it is the first...
According to COUNTRYVV, the boast of an innovator in that century greedy for novelty was also given to Tassoni for the raptured Secchia , a poem that, modeled on the forms of the perfect epic, mixes the serious with the joking in a...
Alongside these actual prodromes of novelty from which the late sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century are glorious, there are in the literature of that same age retching of novelty, in which literary humanism, while trying to...
During the 1980s, the Italian urban network therefore evolved in a very diversified way. From a demographic point of view, the process of deconcentration of the population has now been acquired in the central-northern regions, in the sense of both an...
The recent evolution of the Italian urban network, in addition to the changes connected to demographic dynamics, is linked to the transformations and strengthening of the functions performed by the cities. In particular, these are tertiary functions, that is the range...
The difficulties in reconciling the various political cultures represented there in government action constituted one of the crucial nodes of parliamentary activity, made critical also by the fact that only in the Chamber did the executive have a large majority. Engaged...
According to TRANSPORTHINT, the first decade of the new century was characterized by a clear contrast between the two center-right and center-left camps in the context of a political scenario burdened by recurrent tensions between the parties belonging to the same...
The extensification process affects the environment of dry agriculture and is carried out in different ways: restitution of poorer arable land to pastures, greater weight given to fallow in crop rotations, elimination of crops that require considerable use of human labor...
Over the last few decades, agriculture, especially from the point of view of employment, has changed from being a backbone to a marginal sector of the national economy. The agricultural exodus involved all agricultural environments and all peasant classes (laborers, tenants,...
Naturally it is easier for genres more in keeping with the Renaissance spirit: for Horatian satire, narration of personal events, confession (Ariosto, P. Nelli, L. Alamanni, E. Bentivoglio etc.); for the well-constructed oratory (G. Guidiccioni, Della Casa, Lorenzino de ‘Medici); for...
Petrarchism In the first decades of the sixteenth century, the vernacular reaches its full dignity as a literary language in the conscience of all; moreover, Latin could retain its prestige as long as the vernacular was considered a literally inferior idiom,...
A learned lyric, even when it re-elaborates popular motifs, such as the lament of an abandoned woman, attributed to Odo delle Colonne, or that for the departure of the crusader by Rinaldo d’Aquino. Refined stylistic exercise, the Sicilian School is at...
Widely diffused throughout the age, especially in the Italy northern, is poetry of a didactic-allegorical nature, which, although interesting as a document of the time, has no essential historical development. The best example is the Tesoretto by B. Latini, which is accompanied by...
Except that, at this point, Andrea Doria, having expired on 1 July 1528 the time of his engagement with the king of France, instead of renewing it, made an agreement with Spain. From Charles V he had personal guarantees and guarantees for...
We know what happened after the non-liberation of Milan by the army of the league. That enterprise failed, no other succeeded: not the attempt by the Florentine and papal militias to remove Siena from the imperial party; not the siege of Genoa which...
In the context of poetry, the picture of presences that had already established itself in previous decades, also with new collections and complete syllogies (from Milo De Angelis to Valerio Magrelli, Eugenio De Signoribus, Jolanda Insana, Antonella Anedda, Patrizia Cavalli etc.):...
In the decade 2005-15 the literary horizon that had already emerged in the passage of the new millennium went as if it were: the neutralization of style, the dissolution of value hierarchies, the subscription of models imposed by the market, from...
As a country that belongs to European Union according to allcountrylist.com, Italy is bordered to the south by the seas of the Mediterranean Sea, Tyrrhenian, Ionian, to the south and east, and to the north by the Adriatic Sea, Slovenia and Austria and to the northwest by France, Switzerland and the Ligurian Sea, in the Mediterranean. Within the Italian...
Renaissance, foreign rule and unification (14th to 19th centuries) The Black Death pandemic killed a third of the country’s population in 1348.17 Between the 14th and 16th centuries, Italy was not a political unit as it was fragmented into multiple states....
Early Cultures and Iron Age During the Iron Age, several cultures followed each other that can be differentiated into three major geographic nuclei, that of Ancient Lazio, that of Magna Grecia and that of Etruria. One of these cultures, the Ligurians, were an enigmatic people who inhabited...
Area: 301,338 km² Residents: 60,375,749 (November 30, 2018) Population density: 200 E / km² Form of Government: Parliamentary republic System of Government: Parliamentary democracy Neighboring countries: France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia Capital: Rome National language: Italian Regional official languages: German, French, Ladin, Slovenian religions: 80.2% Roman Catholic, 1.6% Muslim, 0.4% Jehovah’s Witnesses...
With Charles VIII’s procession from France to Naples (1494/95), which he wanted to take possession of as the heir of the Anjou, and the interventions of his successor Louis, which failed because of the Holy League of Pope, Emperor, Milan, Venice...
