The Italian company Finmeccanica, Alenia Difesa licensed the AIM-7E Sparrow technology from the US, and produced its own improved version called Aspide.

The newest upgrade is a joint venture by the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense: the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile ( AARGM ), produced by Alliant Techsystems.

Goldoni entered the Italian theatre scene with a tragedy, Amalasunta, produced in Milan.

He had come to realize that the Italian stage needed reforming ; adopting Molière as his model, he went to work in earnest and in 1738 produced his first real comedy, L ' uomo di mondo (" The Man of the World ").

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

Italian cartographer Battista Agnese produced at least 71 manuscript atlases of sea charts.

Chianti ( pronounced ) is a red Italian wine produced in Tuscany.

In contrast, Dante decided to write his epic, the Divine Comedy in Italian — a choice that defied the traditional epic choice of Latin dactylic hexameters — and produced a masterpiece beloved both then and now.

It continues to be produced today and enjoys some degree of popularity, especially in the urban Latino and Italian communities in which it originated.

It comes to the fore in Italian Renaissance painting, where a series of increasingly ambitious works were produced, many still religious, but several, especially in Florence, which did actually feature near-contemporary historical scenes such as the set of three huge canvases on The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the abortive Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, neither of which were completed.

Modern Italian and European Union legislation grants a protected designation of origin to several raw hams, which specify where and how these types of ham can be produced.

Serie A has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists: Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record twenty-six different occasions, winning the title twelve times.

* Lancia Kappa, an executive car produced by Italian automaker Lancia

The first historical evidence of the existence of an island now known as Mauritius is on a map produced by the Italian cartographer Alberto Cantino in 1502.

* Francesco Gabrieli produced an Italian translation ( Le Rubaiyyàt di Omar Khayyàm ) in 1944.

A bunch of other Italian soaps have been produced as well such as Ricominciare ( Starting over ), Cuori rubati ( Stolen hearts ), Vivere ( Living ), Sottocasa ( Downstairs ) and Agrodolce ( Bittersweet ).

and the produced and co-directed My Name is Nobody in 1968 did very well at the Italian box-office but did not inspire the industry to imitations like his first three did.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

Italian neorealism of the 1940s produced poignant movies made in post-war Italy.

During the 1960s and 1970s Alfa Romeo produced a number of sporty cars, though the Italian government parent company, Finmeccanica, struggled to make a profit so sold the marque to the Fiat Group in 1986.

The first non-Darracq car produced by the company was the 1910 24 HP, designed by Giuseppe Merosi, hired in 1909 for designing new cars more suitable to the Italian market.

Though many varietal form of Chardonnay are produced, and the numbers are increasing, for most of its history in Italian winemaking Chardonnay was a blending grape.

The Italian translation was first performed on 4 June 1867, not in Italy but in London at the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden ( now the Royal Opera House ), where it was produced and conducted by Michael Costa – not as Verdi desired, but in a cut and altered form.

The Italian premiere on 27 October 1867 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conducted by Verdi's close friend Angelo Mariani, was an " instant success ", and this version, although produced in Verdi's absence, was more complete and included the ballet.

The Italian works included the notorious but comparatively tame SS Experiment Camp and the far more graphic Last Orgy of the Third Reich ( Italian: L ' ultima orgia del III Reich ).

Although not entirely Italian, Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, winner of 9 Oscars, and Once Upon a Time in America of Sergio Leone came out of this period also.

* Keolker, James, " Last Acts, The Operas of Puccini and His Italian Contemporaries ", 2001.

* April 4 – Dina Manfredini, Italian Supercenterian ; Oldest Italian Person Ever ; Last surviving woman born in 1897

When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei ), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film.

Bernardo Bertolucci (; born 16 March 1941 ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers.

* Official Milanese " The Last Supper " site ( English and Italian version )

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

From the fifteenth century hence, most condottieri were landless Italian nobles who had chosen the profession of arms as livelihood ; the most famous of such mercenary captains was the son of Caterina Sforza, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, from Forlì, known as The Last Condottiere ; his son was Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ; besides noblemen, princes also fought as condottieri, given the sizable income to their estates, notably Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, and Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino ; despite war-time inflation, soldier ’ s pay was high:

Although he was Italian, he only made a handful of films in his native language, among them The Last Judgement ( Il giudizio universale, 1961 ), Illustrious Corpses ( Cadaveri eccellenti, 1976 ) and Cento Giorni a Palermo ( 1983 ), long used to seeing him dubbed into Italian from the original French release.

* The Italian Achievement: An A-Z Over 1000 ' Firsts ' Achieved by Italians in Almost Every Aspect of Life Over the Last 1000 Years A. Baron Renaissance, 2008 University of California ISBN 1898823553391

His The Last Medici ( not to be confused with the earlier book of similar title ) was published by Faber in 1932, the first of a series of distinguished contributions to Italian historical studies.

Less horrific are Black Sex ( the first genuine Italian hardcore movie and at the same time a weird melange of ghost story and cancer drama ), Hard Sensation ( another variation on the Last House on the Left-model, also hardcore ) and Paradiso Blu ( a softcore Robinsonade starring Anna Bergman ).

Last call is announced by a graphic of what is likely intended to be an Italian bartender, but fans call him the " pizza guy " saying he looks like a worker in a pizza restaurant and that his long sleeves would get wet if he were a bartender.

* Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976 ( 2002 )-Later re-released as Entebbe: A Defining Moment On The War On Terrorism-The Jonathan Netanyahu Story, published in Hebrew, English, Russian and Italian

: The Italian Gothic paintings are the oldest of the gallery, among them Giotto's famous " The Last Supper ", then all Schools of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting are represented with works of Fra Angelico (" Entombment of Christ "), Domenico Ghirlandaio (" Virgin and Child with SS.

* Italian: Sipario ( L ' ultima avventura di Poirot ) ( Curtain Last Adventure )

Bassano's piece, The Last Supper ( 1542 ) is a work that shows Bassano's new interest in the trend of Mannerism in Italian art.

In 1959, Rey co-starred with Steve Reeves and Christine Kaufmann in the Italian sword and sandal film The Last Days of Pompeii.

Great White ( a. k. a. The Last Shark ) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring James Franciscus and Vic Morrow.