Italy

since I can remember the people of Italy have always asked me “where are those golden eggs”. I have always told them “ that I did not know what they were talking about”, but all of this would change. One day during the 1950’s, I had stumbled over a box of rusty old news paper in my attic. They had never come to my concern, so I picked the box up, and walked back down the ladder, and there was the news paper that changed my life. The news paper read Havoc in Italy, Giant Steals Ted Smiths Golden…

In the book, Armour & Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance, Springer examines the political and cultural implications of armour within the sixteenth century in early modern Italy. She highlights the various uses and meanings of armour through this period; from self-fashioning to various ideologies of the body. The first half of the text, Springer explains the various forms of armoured bodies throughout the sixteenth century, with the central focus being towards luxury armour. She…

During the European Renaissance, a number of important trade routes ran through Italy resulting in a web of thriving commercial sectors. Italy’s prominence as a cultural center during the Renaissance contributed to a number of these sectors. In the north of Italy, the lucrative textile industry needed a mechanism to support the import of raw materials and export of finished cloth. Wealthy textile merchants like the Medici family filled the need by investing their already large wealth into…

my cousin in Rome, I was amazed at how inaccurate that show’s representation of Italians really was and how different the Italian culture was compared to what I grew up thinking and experiencing with my own family. My own experience when I visited Italy inspired me to research and discuss the differences between each country and how they represent the Italian culture. Food is one of the most important aspects of both cultures. However, an American breakfast is not the same thing as an Italian…

artistic design, as well as created many of the most famous and beloved sculptures and paintings of all time. As da Vinci commented, “A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Italy introduced Renaissance art and, soon after, it spread to the other countries in Europe. The European countries held Italy in high esteem, mainly because it contained the ancient ruins of Rome. The wealthy merchants of the city were in constant rivalry for artistic creativity, while Rome was bursting…

Pope. He let Galileo do his work on astronomy and let him even publish his findings. By 1623, he had published a book called "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" about a discussion about three peoplGalileo died in Arcetri, near Florence, Italy, on January 8, 1642, after suffering from a fever and heart palpitations. But in time, the Church couldn’t deny the truth in science. In 1758, it lifted the ban on most works supporting Copernican theory, and by 1835 dropped its opposition to…

playing the alto saxophone with piano player Lalo Schifrin in Argentina amid the 1950s. While in Lalo's band, Gato would find the opportunity to play appears with some of jazz's greats, as Coleman Hawkins and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1962, Gato moved to Italy, the country of his first spouse,…

succeeded to the relief of Victor Emmanuel II who knew that attempting to take Rome would lead to a war with France who would not let it go unnoticed. In 1866 Austria was swallowed up and defeated by Prussia in a vicious war the new unified state of Italy took no part in. This left Venetia in the hands of the new Italian state, only Rome remained. Then in 1870 Prussia defeated France and Rome fell to Italian hands, unifying…

and then released in 1948, firstly in its native Italy and then again in the US as “The Bicycle Thief” just over a year later. Ladri Di Biciclette came into the limelight whilst the whole nation was left absolutely staggered by the events that occurred during the Great War that ended three years prior. Italy as a whole were still straining to convalesce in the wake of…

Already a major part of European lifestyles, Christianity began to grow in importance as popes became more involved with federal matters. The popes “came to exercise control over the territories in central Italy that came to be known as the Papal States” giving them political leverage. People with religious affiliation were becoming intertwined with the political world and gaining more power for the church everywhere. The church fought for power in every…