I am an alien, an Italian immigrant who first learned how to change when he was eleven years of age. I'm going to start off by saying that in Italy there is a scarcity of change, making personal development seldom welcomed. People remain in the same socioeconomic class as their parents; the son of a butcher is destined to become a butcher himself. People rarely change houses or move to new cities; a person is expected to live and die in the same small town. People are afraid to embark on new…
“Risorgimento,” ‘The Resurgence,’ or simply the Italian Unification was one of the most important events in Italian history. It was successful in uniting the many independently controlled states into one unified kingdom known as Italy, and was influenced by many means including Camillo Benso, and Victor Emmanuel the Second. It took place for half a century from about 1815 to 1870 in the location of modern day Italy in the south of Europe. The Italian Unification was successful in creating a…
the Stone Age when people would bake crude bread on the stones of a fire and after the cooking of this bread they would top it off with different seasonings and toppings. They would use this bread as a plate to sop up broth or gravies (Stradley, p. 1). Another story says that pizza was founded in Naples, by the Greeks, in the 1700s. The story says that during this time the population in Naples was very vast and they required quick and inexpensive food. Since the homes of the people were so small…
italiano, neapolitan mastiff, italian greyhound, lagotto romagnolo, and bergamasco shepherd are native animals in Italy. Wheat, corn, rice, and sugar beets are native plants in Italy.…
catastrophic consequences of attempting to start a war with France could have. However news from Sicily about a rebellions occurring led to Garibaldi changing course. Garibaldi arrived in Sicily and moved up through the state acquiring more recruits and people joined his growing army. Soon Sicily was in the hands of Garibaldi and entirely under his control. He then headed north, towards Rome. This greatly worried Cavor and Victor Emmanuel II. If Garibaldi attacked the French troops in Rome,…
in the first part of the 20th century. The chronology is as follows: fascism was introduced to the Italians by Benito Mussolini in the period between 1919 and 1945 while Nazism appeared in 1933 and faced a rapid decay with the end of the WW2 in 1945. Ideologically, Nazism and fascism diverged to a big extent and were promoted under different slogans. The founder of the fascist ideology—the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini—attempted at imposing an idea that only a state is a functional unit, not…
Rome is the capital of Italy with 3 million living there. Rome is referred to as the “Eternal City”, because it is one of the oldest continuously populated cities in the world. Rome was also the birthplace for the Italian Renaissance, a time period of great cultural change and artistic thought came into play. Rome also has its own distinctive foods, such as carbonara, a famous pasta dish, that (shouldn’t contain cream), suppli, which are balls of risotto, dipped in…
According to documents and records the Roman Republic people were very familiar with mortgages, debt instruments, equity, financial courts, and banks. In my opinion the Roman were very intelligent and bright people to able to understand and use financial methods. This is the barely the beginning of the financial institutions and techniques becoming introduce to our world. Then from the Roman Empire it moved to the Middle ages which were the Italian people. According to documents and records they…
I took a vacation to Italy. There was a lot of beautiful scenery, wonderful food, and so much more. I visited Rome, Venice, and Florence, went to the beaches, ate lots of Italian food, and went June 18-25th so it would not be too hot or too cold. First, I had to figure out what all I needed for my trip to Italy, I discovered I had to get a passport to even enter the country.” Passports should have at least six months remaining validity beyond your departure date. U.S. citizens may enter Italy…
with the transition in the Italian world from Scholasticism to Humanism. After the Great Schism which lasted from 1378-1417, and the Bubonic plague in 1438, the European feudal system collapsed. Not only, but also, the reputation of the Church was put under considerable scrutiny, weakening the influence of the Papal states of Christendom. Furthermore, the omnipresence of death brought by the plague in 1438 caused high demand for pleasurable goods, causing people people to have greater focus on…