If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini.

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

This rumour has been attributed by some to a rivalry between the German and the Italian schools of music.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

* Italian painter Vinzela has dedicated his artwork " Saharov " to the great personality of human right activist.

Chris Prouty observes that " a failure of nerve on the part of Menelik has been alleged by both Italian and Ethiopian sources.

Traditionally, the location of Charybdis has been associated with the Strait of Messina off the coast of Sicily and opposite the rock on the Italian mainland identified with Scylla.

The term " multitasking " has become an international term, as the same word in many other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian.

* Theatres des Vampires, an Italian extreme gothic metal band has produced a video single called " Carmilla " for its album Moonlight Waltz

The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.

Now ( from 10 December 2007 ), in order of Italian legislation system, the law is before the House and has to be passed also by the Camera dei Deputati, the second house of Italian Parliament, to become an effective law.

To date, no such law has been enacted, however scholars demonstrated that class actions ( azioni rappresentative ) do not contrast with Italian principles of civil procedure.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

One of the characteristics of Italian, and variable in Tuscan, is the retention of the-re infinitive ending as in Latin mittere, " send ", which is lost in Corsican, which has mette / metta, " to put.

Columbus named this island as Savona after the Italian city of the same name but the use during years has eliminated the letter v.

Italian " avere " and " essere " as auxiliaries for forming compound tenses are used similarly to French " avoir " and " être ", Spanish only retains " haber " and has done away with " ser " in forming compound tenses, which are no longer used in either Spanish or Portuguese.

* Italian mainly has the acute and the grave ( à, è / é, ì, ò / ó, ù ), typically to indicate a stressed syllable that would not be stressed under the normal rules of pronunciation but sometimes also to distinguish between words that are otherwise spelled the same way ( e. g. " e ", and ; " è ", is ).

The word state and its cognates in other European languages ( stato in Italian, Estado in Spanish état in French, Staat in German ) ultimately derive from the Latin status, meaning " condition " or " status.

In the first sentence Machiavelli uses the word " state " ( Italian stato which could also mean " status ") in order to neutrally cover " all forms of organization of supreme political power, whether republican or princely ".

The Italian term stato sociale (" social state ") has the same origin.

In the 1920s, the Italian Fascist government's Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro ( OND ) allowed working women to attend various entertainment and recreation events, including sports that in the past had traditionally been played by men.

In the past two centuries, New England cooking was strongly influenced and transformed by Irish Americans, the Portuguese fishermen of coastal New England, and Italian Americans.

The high altitude and freezing conditions also cause logistical and welfare difficulties ; in past similar conflicts ( such as the Italian Campaign of World War I ) more casualties have been caused by the harsh conditions than enemy action.

La Ruffiana ( in Italian, pimp or whore ) is an older female character of the commedia dell ' arte with a shady past or who used to be a prostitute.

In order to weaken the Orthodox Christian Amhara people who had run Ethiopia in the past, territory claimed by Eritrean Tigray-Tigrinyas and Somalis was given to the Eritrea Governorate and Somalia Governorate., Reconstruction efforts after the war in 1936, were partially focused on benefiting the Muslim peoples in the colony at the expense of the Amhara to strengthen support by Muslims for the Italian colony.

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

Bari is known throughout Italy for its unique, often crude, spoken dialect, particularly in the Old Town, parts of which originated from a pidgin between Italian and Greek fishermen in the past, and which fishermen in Greece can still understand today.

In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, in service of the French crown, sailed past the Chesapeake but did not enter the bay.

The river runs past the towns of Bovec, Kobarid, Tolmin, Kanal ob Soči, Nova Gorica ( where it is crossed by the Solkan Bridge ) and Gorizia, entering the Adriatic Sea close to the Italian town of Monfalcone.

Until a few decades ago, Abruzzo was a region of poverty in Southern Italy ; over the past decades, however, it has developed to such an extent that it has escaped from the spiral of underdevelopment to become the ' first ' region of the ' Italian Mezzogiorno '.

Saints Peter and Paul is considered a San Francisco landmark, and emblematic tie to the neighborhood's Italian American past.

Washington Township is sometimes referred to as " South Philly South " or " Little South Philly " as a large percentage of its citizens moved to the town from the Italian South Philadelphia region over the past several decades.

However, Italian public opinion remained unenthusiastic about their country's alignment with Austria – Hungary, a past enemy of Italian unification, and whose Italian populated districts in the Trentino and Istria were seen as Italia irredenta (" unredeemed Italy ").

* Simple past has been replaced by present perfect ( present of haver " to have " + past participle ), possibly due to Italian influence.

In the English version, the scenes where a man on a horse rides past Bud Spencer have the exchange " good evening sheriff " with Spencer grumbling " shut up " whilst the Italian version is silent.

He was a past president of the Italian chapter of Médecins Sans Frontières and was one of the individuals who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of that organization.

In Italian, although to a lesser extent, some analogue words are in use: in particular " ostia " ( host ) and ( more so in the past ) " sacramento " are relatively common expressions in the North / East, which are lighter ( and a little less common ) than the typical blasphemies in use in Italy like " porco Dio " ( pig god ) and " porca Madonna " ( see: Italian profanity ).

The focus on Italy's republican past proved an inspiration to nineteenth-century Italian nationalists.

The name is the contracted past participle of the Genoese word pestâ ( Italian: pestare ), which means to pound, to crush, in reference to the original method of preparation, with marble mortar and wooden pestle.

* The present ( but composed in 1847 and set to music in 1848 ) Italian National anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, popularly known as " Fratelli d ' Italia " ( Brothers of Italy ): " Il suon d ' ogni squilla / i vespri sonò " ( with reference to the past uprisings of the Italian people against foreign rulers, occurring again in these years ).