1. Bruschetta Bruschetta is a popular menu item at many Italian restaurants which commonly served warm as an appetizer‚ snack‚ or side dish. The name comes from the Italian word bruscare‚ which means "to roast over coals. The most common form of bruschetta is the traditional tomato and basil bruschetta. Bruschetta itself‚ is actually thin slices of bread‚ which have been grilled until lightly browned‚ then rubbed with garlic and olive oil. There are as many variations on bruschetta‚ as there are
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Think Italian fashion and the names Armani‚ Versace‚ Prada‚ Gucci‚ Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino come to mind. Women as well as men in Italy take their fashion very seriously. Both Italian women & men are known all over the world for their impeccable fashion sense! Being well groomed and having a chic style of dressing is just the basics of Italian fashion. Italians are known to be perfect right down to their footwear. Quality clothing worn with loads of attitude…that’s Italian fashion
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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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Assess the effect of foreign influences on Italian unification. 1) Introduction : a) One of the most important lessons learned from the 1848 revolutions was that Austria could not be ejected from Italy without the help of foreign allies b) Influence-pressure or persuasion to sway things in a certain way. c) Throughout the course of the Italian unification movement‚ few foreign nations exercised influence: Sardinia‚ France‚ Austria‚ and possibly Prussia and the German states
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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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Italian Literature A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue‚ faith‚ hope‚ and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians‚ true love and nobility‚ which are manifested in their literary works‚ are inseparable. FAMOUS POETS PROFILE WORKS SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS Horace Virgil Livy Ovid
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Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance began in the Middle ages in the great city’s and state’s of Italy. Italian merchants and political officials supported and appointed the great artists of the day‚ because of this the products of the Renaissance grew up inside their own walls. The most powerful city’s and state’s were Florence‚ The Papal States‚ Venice‚ and Milan. Each of these states grew up with its own distinctive character‚mostly caused by the differences between their government
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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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rulers and ordinary people were influenced by the conservative beliefs of the Catholic Church and the attitude of the Papacy towards Italian unity was often reflected in the actions of Italian rulers and mass support for nationalism. In 1815 temporal power was restored to the Papacy in the Papal States and the Pope shared the conservatism of the other Italian rulers who hoped to maintain their own power in individual states. The dominant power in Italy was Austria and the Habsburg family and
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In the period between 1943 and 1950 Italian cinema was dominated by Neorealism which became the most significant film style of post-war Europe. Formation began back in 1936 when propagandists opened modern Cincitta studios and the film school name ‘Centro Sperimentaledi Cinematografia’. Along with the opening of schools such as this was a movement that placed a group of cinematographers under full-year contracts‚ among them was Carlo Montuori who used his classic techniques in creating ‘Bicycle Thieves’
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