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Hooray for the good people of Genoa
I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I've no idea
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.
I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino,
Che bella donna! Dove vai?" Beautiful woman, where are you going?
The cool, grey city of love.
Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island's tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and telling the amazing stories behind them, I hope to remind readers that the Mafia is not a romantic relic of the past.
My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
The beauty of Florence made up for many ugly things he saw in his work. (Commissario Garini's view of Florence,Italy.)
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.
Concetta and Domenico Costa, Mariana Pontillo, the Arena family. We live.
L.A. I could live without.
NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT
The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.
South.
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When in Italy, you should meet Italians.
Kansas City, that's like in Kansas, right?" I ask. "Missouri," Frank and Dad both correct.
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place.
Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy
Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.
See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.
I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows.
In memory Venice is always magic.
We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
It is the house of my dreams. My Tuscan dream! [Every Italophile's dream]
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.
I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]
At Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned
former estate that is now a public park sporting Florence's biggest
Little Caesar's Pizza,
[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.
You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they sat, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato.
When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
Visiting Florence was like attending a surprise party every day.
Seattle, Washington.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.
Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.
Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
...the city of Naples was like this: wonderful from a distance, but when seen close up, it was fragmentary, indefinable, and coarse...
Venice the peaceful demands Venice the just.
Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.
Venice is all sea and sculpture ...
Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true!
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer..
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.
Brooklyn, New York, and
Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.
London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.
There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)
We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the one shot in Vucciria Sicilian historical market We enjoyed showing the faces and the characters that crowd that beautiful market every day.
Massachusetts, which is hard to spell, it is hard not to
In due time the shores of Italy were sighted, and as we stood gazing from the decks, early in the bright summer morning, the stately city of Genoa rose up out of the sea and flung back the sunlight from her hundred palaces.
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
Thomasville, North Carolina. A
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]
Rome, Abby." I ignored him and turned to my aunt. "A month before my father disappeared, he needed you in Rome. Now I need you in Rome.
Graved inside of it, "Italy".
What is the city but the people?
One can rarely say enough about the kindness of Italians. One is always treated as a human being who needs unpredictable things - like a moment by oneself with a bottle on the beach. They have a true gift for what can only be called spontaneous delicacy.
I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.
I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.
It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.
My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
When you come to Venice, you do special work.
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My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
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Totally contrary to my genetic makeup, contrary to my usual behavior and preferences, contrary to all logic, I fell madly in love with Italy, its people and its chaos.
I love New Orleans.