Quotes About Italy

There was no one even to tell her which, of all the sepulchral slabs that paved the nave and transepts, was the one that was really beautiful, the one that had been most praised by Mr. Ruskin. Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.

Philip said slowly, "What about a thousand lire?

Maybe it's that Italy has become familiar enough that I can stop paying attention to it for a few hours a day. Or maybe it's just being back in the country, a place so much more similar to home, where men go for long walks in the hills and people wave to you when you drive past and the background noise is not engines but silence.

The general was sufficiently impressed by the young man to ask him to go back to Italy with him. His back to the wall, Atticus for once in his life refused to do a powerful man's bidding. "No, please, I beg you," he replied. "I left Italy to avoid fighting you alongside those you want to lead me against." Sulla liked his candor and let the matter drop.

Perhaps a third of the population of Italy were slaves in the late Republic—as many as three million people.

Caesar had written a new will during the brief Italian holiday on his return from Spain in 45 B.C.

Eighteen cities in Italy were marked down for land confiscation and freeholders were summarily dispossessed.

Caesar ordered his soldiers, all passionately loyal to him, to invade Italy.

river Rubicon in northern Italy, which separated his province of Cisalpine Gaul from Roman territory proper.

Antony, who had spent the winter at Athens, agreed to return to Italy in the spring or early

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

it was unnerving that a stronghold of barbarism should lie so dangerously close to civilized Italy.

Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

Finally I caught on that what you buy today is ready—picked or dug this morning at its peak. This also explained another puzzle; I never understood why Italian refrigerators are so minute until I realized that they don't store food the way we do. The Sub-Zero giant I have at home begins to seem almost institutional compared to the toy fridge I now have here.

Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.

I simply fell in love [with Italy] - like you fall in love with a person

I'm definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a prison that I don't deserve to be in.

In Italy, football is too important. There is more pressure on coaches, teams, directors. Now is not a good moment for football in Italy. The stadiums are not full. There are problems with violence; it's very difficult with the ultras. People don't go to the stadium just to enjoy 90 minutes of football. People go to the stadium to fight, to win.

My dream is to win something here in Italy and I won't talk about scoring a specific number of goals. I just want to do the best I can.

In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with winding cobbled streets where washing hung from windows and everybody gesticulated and shouted amicably. Ah, but life surprises.

Vin brule is a version of mulled wine enjoyed in Piemonte, in northwestern Italy. It's a perfect choice for holiday entertaining because you can double or even triple the recipe and leave it over very low heat, ladling it out as your guests come in from the cold.

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

When I can, I always like coming to Italy to have some nice wine.