ITALY CULTURE

FROM ANTIQUITY UNTIL THE MID 17TH CENTURY, ITYAL WAS CONSIDERED AS CENTRAL PLACE OF WESTERN  CULTURE.  IT WAS UCYS POINT OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.  ITALY GAVE BIRTH TO A FAMOUS PAINTERS, SCULPTURES, POETS, MUSICIANS AND ARCHITECTS.

ITALY WAS HOME TO WELL KNOWN INFLUENTIAL AND CIVILIZATIONS., INCLUDING GREEKS AND ROMANS.  FOR 2000 YEARS  ITALY EXPERIENCED MIGRATIONS, INVASIONS, ANND WERE DIVIDED INTO MANY INDEPENDANT     TRADITIONS.  POPULAR TSTES IN DRAMA IN ITALY HAVE LONG FAVORED COMEDY. IMPROVE STYLE  IS PERFORMED. 

ROME IS THEIR ANCIENT CAPITAL IN THE SEAT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.  FLORENCE WAS HOME TO MANY ARTISTS.  THEY MADER MANY ACHIEVEMENTS.  VENICE IS A CITY WITH INTRICATE CANAL SYSTEMS AND RICH CULTURAL HISTORY.  PEOPLE VISIT FROM ALL COUNTRIES. ITALY HAS 49 SITES AND 1/2  OF THE WORLDS ART TRESURES.  THEY HAVE 5000 MUSEUMS AND 216 ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES.  THEY HAVE 10,000 CHURCHES, 40,0000 CASTLES, AND OVER 4,000 GRADENS.  MOST STUDENTS STUDY THEIR PAST HISTORY.

THE ITALIAN FASION INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE MOST  IMPORTANT SECTORS.  ROME IS ONE OF THE FASION CAPITALS.  MANY DESIGNERS ARE BASED HERE.  IT IS A VENUE FOR THEIR COPLLECTIONS THAT ARE SHIPPED A5ROUND THE WORLD.  JEWELRY LABELS ARE ALSO MADE HERE.

ITALY HAS PROMINENT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. AS WELL AS FURNITURE PIECES.  ITALY HAS PRODUCED MANY MANY KNOWN FILMS.

THEIR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT WAS ST. PETERS BASILICA, DESIGNED BY DON BRAMANTE IN THE 1500'S.

ITALIAN COMICS WERE PUBLISHED IN 1908.  MANY OTHERS FOLLOWED.  SOME COMICS ATTEND ACADEMICS OF ART.  SOME OF THEIR BOOKS AAAAARE 100 PAGES!  IN THE EARLY 1900'S FUTURISM, A MOVEMENT IN ITALY, INFLUENCED THEIR LITERATURE IN EARLY 1900'S.  ITALY'S FILM AGENCY BECAME INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN FOR  HISTORICAL SPECTACLES.

MUSIC WRITING BEGAN IN ITALY.  THEIR MUSIC USED ITALIAN WORDS.  FLORENCE PLAYED A CRUCIAL  ROLE IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC.  MUSIC HAS ALWAYS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART OF ITALIAN CULTURE.  THE STILL STANDING BATHHOUSES, AQUADUCTS AND BRIDGES WERE ENGINEERING FEATS.DUIRNG THE MIDDLE AGES LARGE SCULPTURE S WERE LARGELY RELIGIOU.  MANY MADESULPTURES FOR BIBLES AS DECORATION FOR PARTS OF CHURCH ALTARS.  THEY INCLUDED MICHALANGELO WHO CREATED OTHERS WHO MADE SCULPTURES OF BIBLICAL PEOPLE.  OTHERS MADE BRONZE SCULPTURES IN 1400'S.  THERE WERE MANY OTHER SCULPTORS FROM ITALY.  BY 1900'S FOLKS CREATED LEADING ROLES AND MADE OBJECTS IN MOTION.

THEATRE ALSO BECAME INFLUENCED BY ROME AND GREECE DRAAAAAAAAAAMATISTS.  THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ACTED OUT PIECES OF THE BIBLE.  DRAMATISTS PRODUCED PIECES FROM EASTER, CHRISTMAS, AND THANKSGIVING, ETC.  OTHER PLAYS WERE REVIVALS.

PAINTINGS HAD MANY STYLES INCLUDING MANNERISMS, BAROQUE, AND MACHIOLI.  IN 1900 MONA LISA BY DE VINCI WAS FAMOUS IN ITALY AND IN THE WORLD.FLORENCE WAS THE PLACE FOR RENNAISSANCE ART.  THEY HAVE 3000 MUSEUMSFROM THE 4TH CENTURY.

ITALIAN FOODS HAVE EVOLVED.  ONE DISH, RISOTTO, IS NOODLES, BEANS, RICE, AND CARROT SOUP.  CHEESE AND WIONE ARE A MAJOR PART OF ITALY.  THEY HAVE OVER 9 TYPES OF NOODLES.  ITALY PRODUCES THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF WINE IN THE WORLD, AND SOME HOMES HAVE THE OLDEST VINEYARDS! COFFEE AND EXPRESSO  HAS BECOME HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO THE CUISINE IN ITALY.  MACHIATO IS A STRONGER PORTION OF MILK.  THEY HAVE A CHOCOLATE POWDER THAT IS DRUNK AT BREAKFAST.

ITALY HAS FREE EDUCATION AND IS DIVIDED INTO FIRST GRADE TO MIDDLE SCHOOL.  THEY ALSO HAVE PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND A RANGE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

ITALY HAS SOME OF THE BEST BUISENESS SCHOOLS.  THERE WERE SEVERAL TRADITIONAL GLOBAL BUISINESS SCHOOLS SOME UNIVERSITIES HAVE RECIEVED IMPORTANT RECOGNITION.

THEHISTORY OF ITALY IS CONTINUOSLY  CHANGINGING FROMFROM 10,000 OR MORE YEARS AGO.  THE ROMANS BECAME THE CHIEF POWER OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD FROM IRAQ, TO SCOTLAND.  ITALY HAD A GREAT EFFECT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIANITY.  LIKE THE OTHER WORKS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY, THE CARE OF SICK WAS FROM THE BEGINNING.  A SACRED DUTY FOR EACH OF THE EACH OF THE FAITHFUL.  HOSPITALS HERE WERE UNKNOWN BEFORE CHRISTIANITY.

ROME FELL IN A.D. 400.  THEN THEY HAD MANY RULERS.  DURING AD 400 - 1400 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH  REPLACED ROMAN EMPIRE AS THE UNIFYING FORCE IN EUROPE.  IN THE MIDDLE AGES LEARNING THEOLOGY OR THE STUDY OF OR THE STUDY OF GOOD OR SCOLASTICISM.  COMMUNES WERE PART OF THEIR MODERN DEMOCRACY.  THEN THEIR WAS AN INTELLECTUAL REVIVL STIMULATED IN PART BY THE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT GREEK WRITINGS., AND GAVE RISE TO THE RENNAISSANCE .  THIS PERIOD HADD A REBIRTH IN ARTS.  AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CAME FROM HERE TO THE U.S. IN 1492.  GALLILEO FORMULATED PLANETARY MOVEMENTS .

ITALY HAD MANY IMPORTANT POETS AND PAINTERS AND MUSICIANS AQND PHILOSOPHERS

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