Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

Austrian German (), or Austrian Standard German, is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and in the autonomous Province of South Tyrol ( Italy ).

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

** Battle of Placentia — Emperor Aurelian is defeated by the Alemanni forces invading Italy

Alaric's wife was reportedly taken prisoner after this battle ; it is not unreasonable to suppose that he and his troops were hampered by the presence of large numbers of women and children, which gave his invasion of Italy the character of a human migration.

* 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes ( Herulic-Scirian foederati ), is proclaimed rex Italiae (" King of Italy ") by his troops.

" Italy ", says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, " Italy is my country – is the country and native soil of the arts.

The last one is in the Museum of Forlì, in Italy.

Catalogued as Cambridge Manuscript 286, it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the St Augustine Gospels, is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Canterbury.

With a capacity of over 72, 000, it is the second largest of its kind in Italy, with only San Siro able to seat more.

He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and some theorize that he had some connection with northern Italy because his early works seem to show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

Among the natives, though Corsican nationalism is strong, and feeling often runs high in favour of a union with Italy, loyalty to France, as evidenced by elections, remains stronger.

In the 1930s Italy designed the world's only triple decker bus for the busy route between Rome and Tivoli that could carry eighty-eight passengers.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

In the post-war period, Italy was transformed from an agricultural based economy which had been severely affected by the consequences of World War II, into one of the world's most industrialized nations, and a leading country in world trade and exports.

Italy owns the world's 3rd largest gold reserve.

The country is also well known for its influential and innovative business economic sector, an industrious and competitive agricultural sector ( Italy is the world's largest wine producer ), and for its creative and high-quality automobile, industrial, appliance and fashion design.

Turkey is one of the world's leading shipbuilding nations ; in 2007 Turkish shipyards ranked 4th in the world ( behind China, South Korea and Japan ) in terms of the number of ordered ships, and also 4th in the world ( behind Italy, USA and Canada ) in terms of the number of ordered mega yachts.

* Benito Mussolini of the National Fascist Party became Prime Minister of Italy, shortly thereafter creating the world's first fascist government.

* January 13 – Opening of the Milan – Venice railway's bridge over the Venetian Lagoon between Mestre and Venice in Italy, the world's longest since 1151.

Another subwoofer claimed to be the world's biggest is a custom installation in Italy made by Royal Device primarily of bricks, concrete and sound-deadening material consisting of two subwoofers embedded in the foundation of a listening room.

The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy ( then capital city of the Kingdom of Naples ); the Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured professor ; in 1763 Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair at the University of Vienna, Austria.

The world's first limited access road was constructed in Italy in 1922 ( see autostrade ).

* The world's largest suspension bridge – the Strait of Messina Bridge – will be completed, connecting Sicily and mainland Italy.

The use and creation of ambassadors during the 15th century in Italy has had long-term effects on Europe and, in turn, the world's diplomatic and political progression.

With its 414, 383 employees, 7, 736, 210 members and a turnover of € 50Bn per year growing at a steady rate of 4. 41 %, Legacoop of Italy is arguably the world's biggest federation of cooperatives.

The museum possesses the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture, the holdings of Italian Renaissance items are the largest outside Italy.

Italy has some of the world's most ancient tourist resorts, dating back to the time of the Roman Republic, when destinations such as Pompeii, Naples, Ischia, Capri and especially Baiae were popular with the rich of Roman society.

There are a number of telemark festivals in Europe, including one of the world's largest, held at Livigno in Italy.

It was the Cumaean alphabet that was adopted in Italy, first by the Etruscans ( 800-100 BC ) and then by the Romans ( 300-100 BC ), thus becoming the Latin alphabet, the world's most widely used phonemic script.

A depiction of the world's oldest continually operating university, the University of Bologna, Italy

Enrico Fermi, came from Italy in 1938 and led the work that produced the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

In 1986 she received the honourary citizenship of Reggio nell ′ Emilia ( Italy ), the first world's town that assigned this important award to Albertina Sisulu.

Historically, the world's first exclusive ( protected ) vineyard zone was introduced in Chianti, Italy in 1716 and the first wine classification system in Tokaj-Hegyalja, Hungary, in 1730.

Other important cities are Turin, which used to be the capital of Italy, is now one of the world's great centers of automobile engineering.

Italy is home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites ( 47 ) to date, and one estimate says that the country is home to half the world's great art treasures.