Italians had developed similar rebreathers for their own frogmen ( the combat swimmers of the unit known as Decima Flottiglia MAS ), especially the ARO, developed by the famous Pirelli society.

Machiavelli is indicating in this passage, as in some others in his works, that Christianity itself was making Italians helpless and lazy concerning their own politics, as if they would leave dangerous rivers un-controlled.

Similar to the Italians of São Paulo ( who founded Palestra Itália, now known as Palmeiras ) the people of Belo Horizonte wanted the Italian colonies in Minas Gerais to have its own club as well.

On " sodomy ", he keenly pointed out the reputation of the Italians beyond their own borders.

Italy was to be the scene of a dispute between the main continental powers, where the Italians were left with only a secondary role in their own destiny.

Italians have often been sceptical of their own politicians.

Although to this point the Italians had been left to fight on their own, after Kobarid ( Caporetto ) they were reinforced by six French infantry divisions and five British infantry divisions as well as sizeable air contingents.

Today, the city has its own culture, which is a mixture of several ethnic groups, most notably immigrants from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, Middle Easterners, Armenians, Portuguese people, Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Paraguayans, finally mixed with Asian and White Brazilians from the Brazilian Southern and Southeast regions, its native Amerindian peoples and Afro-Brazilians.

) To make up the numbers, Questore Pietro Caruso chief of the Fascist police in Rome, offered some Italians from his Regina Coeli prison, one of whom, Maurizio Giglio, had been his own Lieutenant, before being unmasked as a double agent working for the American OSS in charge of radio communications with the Fifth Army.

The Italians all but supplanted the Germans in that area of the city and had their own business district along North State and North Salina Streets.

Harrer's own climb, the strenuous climb of Hermann Buhl, Gaston Rébuffat and their seven partners ( 1952 ), and the catastrophe of 1957, when the two Italians Stefano Longhi and Claudio Corti joined the Germans Günther Nothdurft and Franz Mayer – which resulted in eight bivouac nights on the wall of the mountain for the Italians and the death of all but Corti.

Salieri's struggles with God are intercut with scenes showing Mozart's own trials and tribulations with life in Vienna: pride at the initial reception of his music ; anger and disbelief over his subsequent treatment by the Italians of the Emperor's court ; happiness with his wife Constanze and his son Karl ; and grief at the death of his father Leopold.

The popularity of both singing and composing in Occitan by Italians prompted Dante to write: A perpetuale infamia e depressione delli malvagi uomini d ' Italia, che commendano lo volgare altrui, e lo loro proprio dispregiano, dico ..., meaning " To the perpetual shame and lowness of the wicked men of Italy, that praise somebody else's vernacular and despise their own, I say ..." ( Convivio, treatise I, XI )

Leslie Fiedler wrote of Pavese's death "... for the Italians, his death has come to have a weight like that of Hart Crane for us, a meaning that penetrates back into his own work and functions as a symbol in the literature of an age.

It attracts foreign visitors and Italians alike, many of whom own summer residences in the comune.

Eventually, the Italians landed a force of their own near Sitia on 28 May, when the Allied withdrawal was already ongoing.

" " The Italians had taken the law into their own hands and we had no choice but to do the same ," said Mayor Shakspeare.

Other first-hand evidence about the name Romanians used to call themselves comes from authors having lived in Transylvania and / or Romanian principalities: the Transylvanian Saxon Johann Lebel confirms in 1542 that common Romanians call themselves " Romuini ", Orichovius ( Stanislaw Orzechowski ) notes as late as 1554 that " in their own language, Romanians are called Romini, after the Romans, and Walachs in Polish, after the Italians ", Anton Verancsics writes around 1570 that Romanians living in Transylvania, Moldavia and Walachia call themselves Romans ( Romanians ) and Martinus Szent-Ivany cites in 1699 Romanian expressions: " Sie noi sentem Rumeni " ( modern standard Romanian " Şi noi suntem români ") and " Noi sentem di sange Rumena " ( in modern standard Romanian " Noi suntem de sânge român ")

[...] But I cannot believe that we Italians were the only ones that placed the odd little bet ", adding that he would not have bet in his own name if he wanted to be sly about his activities.

Reviewing the book, one critic noted that Morand “ keeps on repeating the contemporary bromide that ‘ the Jews own New York, the Irish run it, and the Negroes enjoy it … Italians hardly can be assimilated .’” Speakeasies, Morand had concluded: “ I can not think of anything sadder .” New York City ’ s theatre / entertainment district, the Broadway thoroughfare and its central hub Times Square, suggested to Morand an apocalyptic future:

Other armed forces would arrive in Shanghai ; the French Concession had a defensive force of Annamite troops, the Italians also introduced their own marines, as did the Japanese ( whose troops eventually outnumbered the other countries ' many times over ).

The Italians built their own elaborately decorated church with a beautiful altar, but the latter was later destroyed by the German PoWs.

The Italians all but supplanted the Germans and now have their own business district along North State and North Salina Streets.

The Italians were impressed by the very dense and well deployed smokescreen set up by British destroyers and cruisers.

During the initial positioning the Italians suffered technical problems on three destroyers and two light cruisers, so these ships, with several additional destroyers, were detached to refuel in Sicily.

The Italians were organised into three groups, two from six heavy cruisers and seven destroyers and a third of two battleships and another seven destroyers in the rear.

In addition to the six capital ships, the Italians had 19 cruisers, 59 destroyers, 67 torpedo boats, and 116 submarines.

When the Italians encountered the Allied destroyers at about 07: 30, Sydney and Havock were to the north on a sweep for submarines.

He was asked to send a coded message to London that the Italians had laid the keels for three destroyers, but got the code wrong ; the message said " 300 destroyers ".

There were other Italians who still bore scars they had earned in police station basements, resisting.

Surely she could see that these women were her Italians, too, he thought.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

The Italians were forced to withdraw to more defensible positions in Tigray, where the two main armies faced each other.

The Emperor had risen early to begin prayers for divine guidance when spies from Ras Alula, his chief military advisor, brought him news that the Italians were advancing.

The Ethiopian forces positioned themselves on the hills overlooking the Adwa valley, in perfect position to receive the Italians, who were exposed and vulnerable to crossfire.

" There does not appear to be any foundation for reports that some Italians were castrated and these may reflect confusion with the atrocious treatment of the askari prisoners.

This time the Italians employed vastly superior military technology such as tanks and aircraft, as well as chemical warfare, the Ethiopian forces were soundly defeated by May 1936.

The decrees were signed by 255 members, including four papal legates, two cardinals, three patriarchs, twenty-five archbishops, and 168 bishops, two-thirds of whom were Italians.

Three hundred Belgian personnel were serving as staff officers and advisors throughout the Ministry of Defence, Italians were supporting the Air Force, Americans were assisting with transport and communications, Israelis with airborne forces training, and there were British advisors with the engineers.

In 1941, the Italians were defeated and the Vichy forces in French Somaliland were isolated.

The German Karl Adolph von Basedow also independently reported the same constellation of symptoms in 1840, while earlier reports of the disease were also published by the Italians Giuseppe Flajani and Antonio Giuseppe Testa, in 1802 and 1810 respectively, and by the English physician Caleb Hillier Parry ( a friend of Edward Jenner ) in the late 18th century.

The Italians brought to Eritrea a huge development of Catholicism and by the 1940 nearly one third of the Eritrean population was catholic, mainly in Asmara where many churches were built.

The city of Asmara had a population of 98, 000, of which 53, 000 were Italians according to the Italian census of 1939.

Many industrial investments were done by the Italians in the area of Asmara and Massawa, but the beginning of World War II stopped the blossoming industrialization of Eritrea.

When the British army conquered Eritrea from the Italians in spring 1941, most of the infrastructures and the industrial areas were extremely damaged.

The biggest extension of Eritrea was reached during the Italian empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), when northern parts of conquered Ethiopia were assigned to Eritrea by the Italians as a reward for the Eritrean " Ascaris '" help in the conquest of Ethiopia

After the defeat of the Italians by the Ethiopians who were assisted by soldiers from Britain in 1941, Haile Selassie was restored to the throne but Victor Emmanuel did not relinquish his claim to the title until 1943.