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Italy Market Opportunities

Italy Market Opportunities

MFA: Strategic opportunities for foreign exporters Italy is one of the countries in Europe that has felt the consequences of the pandemic the most. However, despite the dramatic effects in the social and economic spheres, the country continues to maintain its privileged position as an industrial and innovative power, and despite the decline in 2020, it is still ranked seventh in the volume of industrial production in the world (ahead of France and Great Britain). However, industrial production fell by…

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Venice, Veneto (Italy)

Venice, Veneto (Italy)

According to acronymmonster.com, Venice stands on 118 small islands between the mainland and the Adriatic Sea. The city is pierced by 160 canals, over which more than 400 bridges are thrown. It seems that the city has grown right out of the water. The first settlement on the site of present-day Venice appeared in the 5th century BC. The heyday of this city fell on the period from the 9th to the 16th centuries, when it became a major center…

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Italy Shopping, Embassy and Communication

Italy Shopping, Embassy and Communication

Language Overview The official language is Italian. South Tyrol is officially bilingual, with German being the main language spoken. Ladin is z. T. School language in Trentino. French is spoken in the border areas with France and Switzerland from the Italian Riviera to the area north of Milan, Slovene in Trieste and Gorizia. Catalan is spoken in some areas of Sardinia. In holiday resorts and larger cities z. T. English, German or French spoken. Idioms Eight = Otto Eighty =…

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The Activities of 17-Century Italy

The Activities of 17-Century Italy

And yet, in this Italian “decadence”, the moments of progress, of the positive work that history has done, of the slow and unconscious adaptation of Italians to the needs of an age that is oriented towards the great states are visible. Italy stagnates: yet in its own stagnation there are the conditions for a new advance. The decline of small states, the ruin of the old feudal nobility, the exhaustion of the closed circles of the city patriciate are decadence, ruin, exhaustion…

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The “Ruin” of Italy Part III

The “Ruin” of Italy Part III

This, however, did not happen, essentially because, in M.’s opinion, the ruling classes shamefully failed to fulfill their responsibilities. All of M.’s reflection on the history of Italy in the fifteenth century and, even more, on the catastrophe of the times in which he wrote, it hinges on the shortcomings of the groups in power. Getting ready in the Histories to narrate the events of the entire peninsula in the fifth book, M. condemns the “cowardice” of the way of waging war…

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The “Ruin” of Italy Part II

The “Ruin” of Italy Part II

As proof of the nefarious consequences of the defective organization of arms in Italy, Fabrizio cites none other than Francesco Sforza, praised in Principe (vii 6) for having acquired his State “for due means and with a great virtue”, and here, on the contrary, counted among the captains responsible for infinite damage; who “to be able to live honorably in times of peace, not only deceived the Milanese of whom he was a soldier, but deprived them of their freedom and became…

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The “Ruin” of Italy Part I

The “Ruin” of Italy Part I

According to LOCALTIMEZONE.ORG, the “ruin” of Italy it is undoubtedly one of the main themes of M.’s thought, a source of pain and anger, but which at the same time required to be explained and understood in order to find a remedy. We have already seen how in the Discourses (I xii 15-21) M. identified in the “corruption” of the Church one of the reasons for the weakness and division of Italy and as in the Prince denounced the growing dependence, starting from the…

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Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 6

Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 6

The strategic plan of the Allies responded to the concept of: a) breaking the Gothic line and spreading throughout Emilia by means of the double winding of Bologna; occupation of the passages on the Po from Piacenza to Ferrara to spread to Lombardy and Veneto (5th and 8th armies b) aiming from Lunigiana on La Spezia-Genoa, to intercept the cornice and spread to Piedmont and Liguria (5th army); c) carry out concurrent action from Ferrara and Venice to target Veneto…

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Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 5

Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 5

Since the beginning of the invasion, violent air attacks on Italian cities, railways and roads and industrial plants had intensified; on 12 and 13 July all the bridges over the Po were destroyed with the exception of that of Ostiglia. These attacks continued to escalate as the Allied forces moved northward, and did not end until April 25, 1945. While the allied forces reached the Apennines, the reconstitution of the Italian army on new bases was authorized, and in August…

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Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 4

Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 4

According to ACEINLAND.COM, the organization of various defensive lines marked with the letters of the alphabet was begun; the most important one, on which the enemy had to be stopped, was the line G (Gustav) which followed the course of the Garigliano-Rapido-Sangro, integrated by successive fortifications and coastal defense, completed by floods and the evacuation of civilians along a strip 5 km deep. from the front lines and from the coast. The Anglo-Americans landed in Salerno and the furious counterattacks…

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Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 3

Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 3

Campaign in Italy: from the landing in Pantelleria (11 June 1943) to the liberation of the entire peninsular territory (2 May 1945). – For the importance of the Italian campaign in the general framework of the Second World War and for the general plans of the Allies, see world war in this second Appendix (I, pp. 1156-1157). While the above events were unfolding, the Anglo-Americans, having occupied Pantelleria (11 June) and Lampedusa-Linosa (13 June), had landed in Sicily (10 July)….

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Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 2

Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 2

To this mass of forces was added a second made up of loose elements for various assignments, well armed and trained, wedged and mixed extensively among the Italian units and especially among the coastal troops (about 150,000 men with mobility, powerful armament and gravitating on vital centers). Of considerable importance is the block located around Rome (about 29,000 men), as well as 6,000 elements of the information service and of the German political bodies. As of 8 September, therefore, the…

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Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 1

Italy War Engagement During the Second World War Part 1

From Italy’s entry into the war to the coup d’etat of 25 July 1943. – On 10 June 1940 the Italian forces began hostilities giving rise to the set of operations constituting the so-called Battle of the Alps (see in this App.). After the armistice with France he inclined to believe in the ease of victory; orders were even given for the dismissal of officers and soldiers. The war, at least in the terrestrial field, was moving away from Italy,…

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Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 4

Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 4

It had hardly been lowered into the tomb when the great building of Gian Galeazzo Visconti creaked all over, began to crumble, was overwhelmed by the greed of friends and the grudges of enemies, leaders or ousted lords or groups of city nobility. And not only did the distant parts break off, but the core core dissolved as well. All the Visconti leaders made a lordship there: Gabrino Fandulo in Cremona, Pandolfo Malatesta in Brescia, Giovanni Vignati in Lodi, Filippo Arcelli in…

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Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 3

Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 3

At this point, the Italian reaction against Gian Galeazzo begins. Florence, although not too targeted by the Visconti but suspicious of him, allies itself with Bologna, trying to attract Venice, still an ally of the Visconti. A coalition is outlined, directed from Florence, in which all the small states that are enemies of the Visconti and fearful of him enter. Venice is neutral, but it helps them. It is the time that the republic, as a result of the military and financial aid given…

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Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 2

Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 2

According to TRAVELATIONARY.COM, the Visconti enjoyed a great reputation for strength in Italy at the time: many cities under them, including Pavia and Milan, former capital of the kingdom and now, the latter, among the richest and most industrious, also of war industries; many financial means, many militias. They did not lack even that kind of moral legitimacy represented by the praise of a great and highly reputed poet, Francesco Petrarca, desired guest of Archbishop Giovanni from 1353 to 1361. Bernabò also…

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Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 1

Italy Lordships and Principalities – Viscount Primacy Part 1

In the last decades of the ‘300, the State of the Church is, due to the schism, back on the high seas and almost canceled, due to a very serious crisis, the kingdom of Naples, in the midst of the first struggles between the Sanseverino faction and the faction of the powerful Dukes of Andria, supported by a real military organization that was recruited in the country and outside; then, given the aspirations of the Angevins of France for the kingdom,…

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Italy Literature Part 6

Italy Literature Part 6

According to TIMEDICTIONARY.COM, the trend that could be defined as “denouncing essayism” can be traced back to the same matrix of realistic “experimentalism”, in which the representation of the relationships between institutions and the individual is faced with a clear will to classify inspired by a sort of rationalism of the Enlightenment matrix, as happens in the work of L. Sciascia (The day of the owl ; The council of Egypt ; The context). A separate case is given by…

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Italy Literature Part 5

Italy Literature Part 5

The new approach to the problem of realism, understood no longer as a photographic reflection of the appearance of objects but as a recovery of a different relationship with the data of experience, which essentially arose from the work of Pavese and Vittorini, has instead given rise to a sort of “experimentalism” of considerable importance, not so much in its immediate fruits, of heterogeneous value, as in the consequences, that is, in the richness of the roads and of the…

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Italy Literature Part 4

Italy Literature Part 4

In fact, we are witnessing in the first place an attempt to recover the classic form of the nineteenth-century novel based on the character-story connection, in the different but similar articulations of the traditional story based on the character as a medium for the contemporary social portrait, or of the historical novel. These forms, which as mentioned above essentially represent an extension and recovery of nineteenth-century objectivism, are generally re-proposed in a reworking that alternates direct representation with representation mediated…

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Italy Literature Part 3

Italy Literature Part 3

An approach to the problem of realism in linguistic terms, starting from a consideration of the linguistic institute as “mediation between poetry and culture”, is at the origin of the verse production of the neo-avant-garde (see in this App.) And of authors that follow similar paths, reached through a completely independent work of elaboration or more or less correlated to the neo-avant-garde experience. Villa (The privilege of being alive ; We are ancient beings), G. Musa (The artificial night ;…

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Italy Literature Part 2

Italy Literature Part 2

PP Pasolini had already made provision for a similar periodization, but referring to language in general, and not only to the language-dialect relationship (in Ulysses, 1956-57, fasc. XXIV-XXV) outlining a first moment, with an average language of the Manzoni type, a second moment, characterized by a koiné resulting from an interregional generic mixture, and a third neorealistic moment aspiring to the mimetic use of an everyday speech but substantially fixed to the reuse of the koiné. A few years later,…

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Italy Literature Part 1

Italy Literature Part 1

According to MYSTERYAROUND.COM, the solutions and responses of the last fifteen years represent the maturation of the discussions and problems that had been raised and developed in the second half of the 1950s starting from the observation of the crisis and failure of neorealism. In particular, that need for contact with reality persisted, that need for knowledge that had manifested itself after the war and to which neorealism had given an answer, rather than inadequate, wrong. The intolerance for the…

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