... on our way to the hotel. It was sunny and really hot, but we were enjoying it. After we checked into the Hotel Ambasciatori Palace, we took our own small little tour. Since my friends and I were tired, we just wanted to relax and look around, so we wandered around the nearby Borghese Park where we could see everything from old ... people spoke in French. The taxi driver and the souvenir shop sales lady were impolite but we didn't really care since we knew that the French are famous for being a little snobbish and unforgiving of overseas visitors who try hard to speak their language and ...

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... repression to assure their survival. Modena, for example, was a full-blown police state where education was controlled by the Jesuits and where Jews were persecuted. In Parma the Archduchess Marie Louise (Napoleon's widow) allowed the duchy to be run by her Austrian advisors. Here universities were suppressed for encouraging freedom of thought. In the poverty stricken and backward Papal States, conditions ... stricken region and had a tradition of bloodfeud and violence. The foreign domination of Italy kept its people in poverty. Even by the middle of the 19th century there was very lit...

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