Cultural Policy and History of Italy Italy is, for lack of a better word, a rather young state with it's origin in the year 1860. ... The past is something that Italy prides itself on. ... However, with these new developments, the citizens of Italy turned to new participation in cultural life. ... After the war, Italy was seen as a country that wanted to start anew on a few things, the film-industry being one of them. ... It is common knowledge that northern Italy is quite different in compa...

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The fact that Italy was unified promoted emigration of the Italians into America as a means of easing economic pressures that Italy was experiencing. ... As previously connoted herein, a significant proportion of close to 80% of Italian Immigrants emanated from Southern Italy. ... As such, most of the Italians did not view themselves as Italians. ... The settlement patterns adopted by the Italian immigrants were family-centred whereby Italians from with kinship ties and from the same areas in Italy resided in a given area. This led to the emergence of small Italies. ...

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After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ... The explosion of Austrian power in Italy was the main problem which discouraged an early unification of Italy. ... As Rascaoli says "Piedmont today is all of Italy." ... It was to be achieved not in Italy but in Europe. ... Thus, Italy could at last be unified in the hand of the Italians. 2. ...

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Italy is the birthplace of the Mafia. ... This is natural in Italy. ... Doing nothing is what many Italians do best, and most Italians will consider that a compliment. ... This is how much of Italy operates. ... Most Italian firms are family-owned. ...

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The Italian Renaissance was influenced by many cross-cultural influences resulting from political conflicts and alliances between Italian city-states and from other influencing countries such as Spain and France. ... Italian Weavers produced elaborate brocades, velvets and other decorated textiles. ... There are very clear differences within costume styles between the Northern and Italian Renaissance. ... Men's Garments - Italian Renaissance Men's styles of dress within the first half of the Italian Renaissance developed very little from the late Middle Ages. ... Women's Garme...

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Italy is one of Europe's most visited tourist spots. ... The prevalent language is Italian. ... Italians are also family oriented individuals. ... Daily life in Italy may appear to be relaxed, but in actuality Italians are serious about business. ... Political Environment Italy's form of government is known as the Italian Republic. ...

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Our first destination was Rome (Italy). Italy is situated in Europe and attached in the north to the European mainland. ... Since we were carrying an Italian-English' translation dictionary and some of the words in Italian are similar to French and English words, we did not find it that hard to get around from place to place. The Italians seemed like very friendly people. ... It seemed to me that the Italians were much more friendlier and pleasant to talk to. ...

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The post war years rendered difficult for Italians, whose society took a big hit as Mussolini's government collapsed. ... Filmmakers took this advice and began to take necessary steps in order to create a natural and original style for Italy. ... In Italian neorealism, the brilliant use of nonprofessional actors by Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni allowed viewers to see a natural essence occurring in an authentic environment. ... All of these components signify freedom as a filmmaker and exemplifies his establishment as an auteur in the progression of the Second Italian Film Re...

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Politics, art, and utopia in French anarchism and Italian futurism 1890-1920 In Paroles d'un revolte, Peter Kropotkin outlined a new vision for the arts as part of his anarchist philosophy, asserting that "the arts have a mission to accomplish for the achievement of the future society... ... Whilst Futurism tied itself to a strongly patriotic sense of Italian nationalism (a trait that led to a smooth transition into Italian fascist politics of the 1930s), French anarchism, by contrast, prided itself on disengaging with any overarching authoritarianism, be it national or otherwise, and...

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Mussolini and Italian Fascists identified their ideology as being connected to the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar, who was idolised by Italian Fascists.3 They viewed the modern state of Italy as the heir of the Roman Empire and accentuated the need for renovation of Italian culture to 'return to Roman values' because Italian Fascists identified the Roman Empire as an ideal organic and stable society in contrast with contemporary individualistic liberal societies, which they saw as symbolic.4 Whereas German Fascism ideology could not look back at a time of great domination to aspire ...

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It was in this environment at Avignon that Petrarch (1304 "1374), the father of Italian humanism, initially looked into and advanced established learning. ... The recovery of Greek learning was supported by becoming contact between the Greek and Latin holy places at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438 "1445 furthermore by the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, after which Greek émigrés escaping the city took up habitation in Italy and brought home the bacon by instructing Greek to Italian understudies. ... Their pupils carried on their teachings "both...

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For automatic washing machines the range is from 72% in Sweden to 96% in Italy; for dishwashers, from 11%in the Netherlands to 34% in Germany; for clothes dryers, from 5% in Spain to 39% in Belgium; for microwave ovens, from 6% in Italy to 37% in Sweden; for vacuum cleaners, from 56%in Italy to 96%in Netherlands. It is remarkable that the same countries (Italy, Netherlands, Sweden) can be at the high penetration level for some appliances and at the low penetration level for others. ...

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Machiavelli: The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli was born into a time of political upheaval in Italy. At the time of his birth to a wealthy Florentine lawyer in 1469, the Medici family had been ruling Italy for 35 years. The political life in Italy was characterized by instability, fear, and invasion as the small states of Italy were pulled into the wars and politics of Europe by the larger, more powerful states of France and Spain. ... He didn't become involved in Italian politics until 1498, whoever, when a second Republic was set up under Soderini. ... Before the initial attempts at a ...

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Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. ... Italy had long-standing problems that were made worse by the war. ... The Italian fascio means "group" or "band.... The doctrines of Italian fascism had three components. ... Mussolini began to rebuild Italy in accordance with these principles. ...

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The popular stereotype of Italians, involving big gestures, lots of hand-waving, and plenty of loud and excited shouting, may be a stereotype, but it exists for a reason. In the Italian culture, excitement is shown a lot more obviously than in the UK, for example, and non-verbal communication tends to be a lot more obvious. This can make it much harder for Italians to interpret non-verbal communication in the UK or USA, where it is more subtle. The thumbs-up gesture, which generally signals approval in English-speaking countries, is considered offensive in other countries, including Greece, It...

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The Napoleonic Empire came into existence following the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France at Notre Dame in 1804. The frontiers of the ancien regime had been expanded up to and beyond France's natural borders, with the momentum of expansion following in direct correlation with the...

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Only four year later, in 1924, Mussolini had risen to power to become Prime Minister of Italy and then in 1925 he had become Italy's new dictator. ... France and Britain were also repudiating Italy out of its due gains by not handing over the extra land they had offered leading the current Italian Government to look "ignored" and "inconsequent". ... He founded the Fascist party within Italy and set himself up as a powerful and lively man who could "sort out" Italy's problems. ... Mussolini recognized this and began promising things that any one in Italy would find favorable. He pr...

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There he was wounded near the Italian/Austrian front. ... The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... Later he deserted the Italian Army, knowing that he faced death. ... Many of the situations and characters in A Farewell to Arms came from Hemingway's own experience with the war in Italy. ... Henry was posted in northern Italy and, like Hemingway, received a wound from a mortar round. ...

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De Sica created a version of neo-realism, linking the material poverty of war stricken Italy with the spiritual loneliness of its inhabitants. ... By extension, Italy too, is reborn into a country free from Fascist dictatorship but subject to the atrocities of German occupation. ... Rosetta's rape signifies the loss of virginity and innocence, but can also be seen as a symbol of Italy's fate during the war. ... As Rosetta is sacrificed to pay for humankind's sins, specifically the sin of indifference to the depravity stemming from the war, her rape likens Italy's failu...

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He was never defeated in his campaign against Italy, over fifteen years of fighting.3 He was an accomplished politician and judge of character. ... Now while debate raged in Rome for declarations of war, Hannibal did not waste time bickering.9 He packed up 40,000 troops in the early spring of 218 to make a land march into Italy. ... And since Romans had mastery of the sea by this point in time, the only possible discourse by which to transport an army to Italy from Spain was over the Alps. ... He recruited aid from the Gauls of the area and increased his forces to 40,000 infantry and 6,00...

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Some countries such as Italy, Poland and Greece all wanted a piece of the action. ... The biggest example of this was Italy. Italy had originally been allied with Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but when war broke out Italy refused to march. Then a year later Italy signed a secret pact with the Allies, in exchange for Italy joining the war on the Allied side, the Allies would give Italy all the land they felt they had a claim to. At the end of the war the Italians never got anything near what they had been promised. ...

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Jacob had studied in Italy, a luxury available to only a select few of the aspiring artists of the day. ... Lastman, like Jacob van Swanenburgh, had studied in Italy. However, unlike, van Swanenburgh, Lastman benefited from his Italian studies. ... Rembrandt response was that travelling to Italy was a waste of time and too much trouble, since the best Italian pictures could be conveniently and thoroughly studied in Dutch collections. Through the years Rembrandt studied many of the fine Italian works that were in these Dutch collections and later in life possessed several Italian pictures and ...

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Another reason was that it brought Germany closer to Italy, a country that was also supporting the military uprising in Spain. ... On 28th November the Italian government signed a secret treaty with the Spanish Nationalists. ... This included 30,000 men from the Blue Shirts militia and 20,000 soldiers serving with the Italian Army. In March 1937 these men were incorporated into the Italian Corps(Shannon). ... During the Spanish Civil War Italy sent 80,000 men, of whom almost 6,000 belonged to the Italian Air Force, 45,000 to the army and 29,000 to the fascist militia. ...

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Gianni Versace was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy on December 2, 1946. ... How ever his first real designing job came in 1972 with a collection for Fiori, Fiorentini which was an Italian based company that had an established name in Italy. ... His next step in the process to gain recognition as an individual designer was with De Parisi, Genny which was another established label in Italy. ... Next to be a bit of a surprise to the famous designer is a year of prestigious awards and contracts with various ballets that are a huge honor for him achieve in Italy. ... Many famous designers said th...

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The First Punic War marked the first Roman involvement outside of Italy, and was the beginning of the Romans conquest of the Mediterranean. ... In the late 300's Campanian mercenaries which had been hired by the Greeks seized the town of Messana on the straights separating Sicily from Italy. ... But the Mamertines were of Italian origin other hand, and Rome now stood as the very aware and efficient protector of all things Italian. ... The Romans decided that the whole force couldn't be supplied during the winter in enemy territory, so one consul returned to Italy with part of the tro...

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