Chancellor Metternich‚ an extreme conservative who believed that everything should be kept the way it was‚ with the aristocracy in control and the rest of the population with little or no power. Metternich once described the area we know today as Italy‚ back then a disunited group of various states‚ as a ‘Geographical Expression’. At the time the disunited group of states were economically backwards compared to the rest of Europe‚ there was little trade between them and a slow developing industry
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italy Italian culture: Identity The Italians identify first with their village‚ this is known as "Campanilismo" - that area visible from the bell tower of the church in their village. "Campanile" meaning bell tower. But first and foremost Italians give priority to themselves‚ then their families‚ the village‚ province‚ region‚ and finally the country. Italian culture traditions: The Italy food culture The principle reason why many visit Italy is for the food. And who can blame them! The dining
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was a famous Italian painter‚ architect‚ poet‚ sculptor. He was born in Caprese Italy. Michelangelo Buonarroti was an aid to the Catholic Church due to artwork like David and Pietá and because of the poetry he wrote. On March 6 in the year 1475‚ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born. He always had a fascination for painting and art. Throughout his youth he was surrounded by people who inspired him. It is no wonder that just in his teenage years he created outstanding
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Sicily for in between Italy and Sicily‚ there are terrible monsters. There is one monster who she seizes sailors out of their ship; over here the waters are swallowed by a second monster where your ships will be destroyed. Therefore‚ you will avoid the straight and you will sail around Sicily. You will also avoid the Sicilian monster Polyphemus; he has already devoured many Greek men.’ "We were sailing as the advice had been given by Helenus. But as we sailed close to Italy‚ we were called
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Italians followed relatives that were already established in Australia‚ many Italians had tried to make a living to be able to send money back to their relatives in Italy that were suffering from severe poverty in post war Italy‚ or simply just wanted to have a better future for themselves and their families. A lot of Italian migrants travelled to Australia with little to no money‚ a suitcase and the clothes that they were wearing. Many Italians had been called to work as soon as they had disembarked
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over into what we call the modern world came first from Italy. Italy‚ like the rest of the Roman Empire‚ had been overrun and conquered in the fifth century by the barbarian Teutonic tribes‚ but the devastation had been less complete there than in the more northern land‚ and there‚ even more‚ perhaps‚ than in France‚ the bulk of the people remained Latin in blood and in character. Hence it resulted that though the Middle Ages were in Italy a period of terrible political anarchy‚ yet Italian
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Woodcarver’ The Importance of Community in Relation to Selfhood in Early Modern Italy Name: Matthew Brown Student #: 996811357 Course: HIS357Y1 Professor: V. McCarthy Date Submitted: Oct 9 2014 Selfhood and individuality are two concepts inextricably linked with post-modern ideologies of personal existence however in centuries past this was not always the case. During the Early Modern era‚ specifically in Italy‚ ones concept of selfhood was heavily reliant on communal relationships and
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Italy‚ relevantly newly unified still had a strong sense of division between the North and South regions‚ causing tension and issues within the government and its citizens. Another issues causing trouble within Italy was that its big wartime debt that it accumulated during the war. This wartime debt led to an economic depression; the North faced an industrial depression‚ where as the South face an agricultural depression. In addition to all these issues taking place Italy’s parliamentary government
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Mazzini was an important figurehead for the unification of Italy‚ historians such as Pearce and Stiles state that that ’no one else campaigned for so long or so tirelessly in the cause of a united Italy’. He had extremely radical and liberal ideas about how Italy should be unified‚ and some historians Mazzini’s ideal was that Italy should be unified ‘from below’. He wanted the people of Italy to rise up from their high-powered oppressors‚ while still maintaining the opinion that if monarchs were
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how the human figure is depicted in Italy‚ from something that was highly stylized to an idealized form that looked more real yet was strongly influenced by the Classical Age of ancient Greece and Rome. In the Northern Europe‚ however‚ depiction of the human form remained rooted in the Middle Ages and remained somewhat stylized. We will be talking about three pieces of works of art from 14th century Early Renaissance to 15th century Renaissance in Italy. Stroganoff Madonna & Child 14th
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