“I'm proud to be able to call myself a European citizen, born in Italy.”
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
“Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.”
Dario Fo
“Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation”
William Shakespeare
“Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.”
Cecilia Bartoli
“We expect to see a marked slowdown in revenue growth in three of Vodafone's major European markets: Germany, Italy and Spain. Each has experienced significant termination rate cuts ... and this will have hit service revenue growth.”
Christian Maher
“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”
Bertrand Russell
“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.”
Fanny Burney
