Quotes About Italy

then transferred all Italy to be the property of the pope and removed to his city of Constantinople, leaving the manuscript recording his donation on the embalmed body of Saint Peter. "Alas, Constantine, how much evil didst thou mother!" exclaimed Dante. This is unfair to Constantine; the evil was mothered by some ingenious clerical zealot, who contrived probably the most momentous forgery in history.

Saint Benedict of Nursia in Italy (c. 480-c. 543) brought common sense to monastic practice. His famous Rule encouraged asceticism and otherworldliness, without leading to excess. It prescribed, in reasonable proportions, prayer, praise, study, and labor in the fields. The Rule is still the guide for many monasteries.

Liberal hand-wringing over the electoral victory of the far-right in Italy will not extend to its core ideology: anti-migration. The EU will continue to support Italy's abandonment and terrorizing of people on the move. Anti-migrant politics truly is the fascist foot in the door.

Questo ti volevo dire. Ho rotto il nostro patto ma forse é stato meglio così. Ora basta però, non ti voglio rattristare. Mia madre mi ha detto che sei bellissima e io lo sapevo. Quando eravamo piccoli ero sicuro che saresti diventata miss Italia. P.s. Preparati, che quando passo da Bologna ti prendo e ti porto via.

In early April 2020, many hospitals around the country were preparing policies related to triage that were based in part on age. Reports had emerged of the necessity of such triage in Italy in the previous month.42 Should circumstances require, the very old were to be denied ventilators or taken off them so that the ventilators might be reassigned to younger people more likely to survive.

all the way down to Corunna, and from Cadiz to the Italian border.

Napoleon had 60,000 troops in Italy, scattered in different locations.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».

Aggiungo che a pensarci bene quest'Italia non è un'Italia ideale. È un'Italia che nonostante tutto esiste. Zittita, ridicolizzata, sbeffeggiata, diffamata, insultata, ma esiste. Quindi guai a chi me la tocca. Guai a chi me la invade. Guai a chi me la ruba.

quell'Italia, l'Italia povera che ne consegue. Povera nell'onore, nell'orgoglio, nella conoscenza, e perfino nella grammatica.

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.