Italy according to different literary periods. Classical Italian literature Ancient Rome was the military and cultural centre of the world for centuries. Literature was a well developed discipline in Italy during Roman times producing several classical works of literature that are still read today. It is amazing to think that such great works of literature were written in Italy as far back as 800BC. Some of the biggest names in Italian literature from this period include Horace‚ Virgil‚ Livy and
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known as one the most influential artist of the 20th century. Picasso began life as a prodigy to his father who was an art teacher and painter himself taught him to draw. It is said that by the time Picasso surpassed his own father’s skill by the time he was age 13. Picasso attended many different art institutions in Spain and France but he didn’t stay long nor did he graduate‚ due to him feeling as though school teachings didn’t fully allow him to be an artist so he would skip and travel inner city
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official EU language: Italian Italy is mainly mountainous‚ except for the Po plain in the north‚ and runs from the Alps to the central Mediterranean Sea. It includes the islands of Sicily‚ Sardinia‚ Elba and about 70 other smaller ones. There are two small independent states within peninsular Italy: the Vatican City in Rome‚ and the Republic of San Marino. The centre of the vast Roman Empire which left a huge archaeological‚ cultural and literary heritage‚ the Italian peninsula saw the birth
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ours‚ this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it‚ hey‚ that’s great. But it’s very‚ very unpredictable. There’s so many ways you can screw it up” (“Famous Mob Quotes.” 1). Despite public misconception of the Italian Mafia‚ it has not always been the murderous‚ cold-hearted killers known today. The Mafia actually began as a way of protection. When the government took advantage over the common people‚ the Mafia would take the law into their own hands. The organization
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August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter‚ the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore‚ near Belluno (in Veneto)‚ in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore‚ taken from the place of his birth. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante’s Paradiso)‚ Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters‚ equally adept with portraits‚ landscape
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5th Challenging the 15th Amendment caused a big division within the civil rights movement and two organizations emerged. In 1869‚ Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to work for the right to vote on the federal level and press for wider institutional changes. Another organization‚ the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded by suffragists‚ Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe‚ who believed that once African American men were granted the right to vote
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Italian Immigrants During the time period from 1880 to 1920‚ millions of people from around the world made the decision to immigrate to America. Specifically the Italian that immigrated to the United States came from Southern Italy. Roughly 5 million immigrates arrived at Ellis Island during the time period of 1880 to 1920. The original homes of these Southern Italians was economically depressed and predominantly agricultural in comparison to the Northern Italian’s home‚ which were prosperous
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in all fields of culture along 2‚500 years of history are innumerable; in the two periods in which the Italian territory was the center of the civilization of the time‚ during the Roman Empire and the Renaissance‚ the role he had in the history of human knowledge was of decisive importance. From the Greek temples of Magna Graecia to medieval villages‚ from the Roman Baths to the eighteenth-century villas‚ Italy has over 60 thousand national monuments‚ 3‚400 museums‚ about 2‚100 archaeological parks
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Sonya Black‚ Sidney Frey‚ Diana Zuniga The Italian Unification The Italian Unification was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century. Young Italy is a nationalist group created to fight for unification of the separate Italian states. The two prominent figures in the unification were Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. The two powerful monarchic figures included Count Cavour and
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Anthony Wilson 11/10/2014 Italian Neorealism As cultures progress‚ cinema will always revive its past‚ mirror its present‚ and predict its future. Throughout history‚ cultures have inspired new waves of film. Filmmaking has reflected cultural decades of every era. Whether through non-fiction or fiction‚ films still establish the principle of human psyche. From America’s popular westerns in the 1920s to Italy’s neorealist films in the ‘40s-‘50s‚ films have been created to emulate the conditions
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