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Italy (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja] ), officially the Italian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Italiana [reˈpubblika itaˈljaːna]), is a country in Southern and Western Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it consists of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands. Italy shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and an archipelago in the African Plate (Pelagie Islands). Italy covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi), with a population of nearly 60 million; it is the tenth-largest country by land area in the European continent and the third-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Rome. The Italian peninsula was historically the native place and destination of numerous ancient peoples. The Latin city of Rome in central Italy, founded as a Kingdom, became a Republic that conquered the Mediterranean world and ruled it for centuries as an Empire. With the spread of Christianity, Rome became the seat of the Catholic Church and of the Papacy. During the Early Middle Ages, Italy experienced the fall of the Western Roman Empire and inward migration from Germanic tribes. By the 11th century, Italian city-states and maritime republics expanded, bringing renewed prosperity through commerce and laying the groundwork for modern capitalism. The Italian Renaissance flourished in Florence during the 15th and 16th centuries and spread to the rest of Europe. Italian explorers also discovered new routes to the Far East and the New World, helping to usher in the European Age of Discovery. However, centuries of rivalry and infighting between the Italian city-states among other factors left the peninsula divided into numerous states until the late modern period. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Italian economic and commercial importance significantly waned.After centuries of political and territorial divisions, Italy was almost entirely unified in 1861 following Wars of independence and the Expedition of the Thousand, establishing the Kingdom of Italy. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, Italy rapidly industrialised, mainly in the north, and acquired a colonial empire, while the south remained largely impoverished and excluded from industrialisation, fuelling a large immigrant diaspora. From 1915 to 1918, Italy took part in World War I on the side of the Entente and against the Central Powers. In 1922, following a period of crisis and turmoil, the Italian fascist dictatorship was established. During World War II, Italy was first part of the Axis until it surrendered to the Allied powers (1940-1943) and then, as part of its territory was occupied by Nazi Germany with fascist collaboration, a co-belligerent of the Allies during the Italian resistance and the liberation of Italy (1943-1945). Following the end of the war, the country replaced the monarchy with a republic via referendum and enjoyed a prolonged economic boom, becoming a major advanced economy.Italy has the eighth-largest nominal GDP in the world, the second-largest manufacturing industry in Europe (7th-largest in the world). The country has a significant role in regional and global economic, military, cultural, and diplomatic affairs. Italy is a founding and leading member of the European Union, and it is in numerous international institutions including NATO, the G7, the Mediterranean Union, the Latin Union, and many more. The source of many inventions and discoveries, the country is considered a cultural superpower and has long been a global centre of art, music, literature, cuisine, science and technology and fashion. It has the world's largest number of World Heritage Sites (58), and is the world's fifth-most visited country. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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La Tresse
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«Viva Mussolini!». La guerra della memoria nell’Italia di Berlusconi , Bossi e Fini
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The Dark Heart of Italy
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Proudhon in Italia: Una riflessione politica incompresa
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les anarchistes expropriateurs
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Verrat auf deutsch
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Michel Bakounine et l'Italie, 1871-1872
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Itinéraire descriptif, historique et artistique de l'Italie et de la Sicile
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Itinéraire descriptif, historique et artistique de l'Italie et de la Sicile
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Italy and Italian life: Travel memories
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De Madrid a Nápoles
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L’Intervention à Naples : le règne de Ferdinand II
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Italian Journey
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Characteristical Views of the Past and of the Present State, of the People of Spain and Italy
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Homosexuality in Italian Literature, Society, and Culture, 1789-1919
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A history of architecture in Italy
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Trente jours de voyage en zigzag de Paris à Venise par huit écoliers en vacances
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Italy
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Prigioni e prigionieri nel regno d'Italia. Seconda edizione
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De Paris à Venise. Notes au crayon ; par M. Charles Blanc, ancien directeur des beaux-arts
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L'Italie
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Inno di guerra degl'italiani
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La storia
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L'Italie d'hier, notes de voyages, 1855-1856, entremêlées des croquis de Jules de Goncourt jetés sur le carnet de voyage
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L'Autre Italie, 1968-1976 : problèmes de la dictature du prolétariat
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L'Italie depuis 1870
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Voyage en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Contenant l'histoire et les anecdotes les plus singulières de l'Italie, et sa description ; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités ; avec des jugements sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Troisième édition. Tome I
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Voyage en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Contenant l'histoire et les anecdotes les plus singulières de l'Italie, et sa description ; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités ; avec des jugements sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Troisième édition. Tome II
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Voyage en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Contenant l'histoire et les anecdotes les plus singulières de l'Italie, et sa description ; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités ; avec des jugements sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Troisième édition. Tome III
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Voyage en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Contenant l'histoire et les anecdotes les plus singulières de l'Italie, et sa description ; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités ; avec des jugements sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Troisième édition. Tome IV
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Voyage en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Contenant l'histoire et les anecdotes les plus singulières de l'Italie, et sa description ; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités ; avec des jugements sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Troisième édition. Tome V
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Voyage en Italie fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Contenant l'histoire et les anecdotes les plus singulières de l'Italie, et sa description ; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités ; avec des jugements sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Troisième édition. Tome VI
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- The Wisdom of Father Brown
- Catch-22
- The Dwarf
- Doctor Faustus
- The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
- The skin
- The Very Lowly
- Confessions of an Italian
- The English Patient
- A riveder le stelle
- Costretti a sanguinare
- Da Quarto a Torino
- Daghela avanti un passo!
- Falce e carrello
- Fiero l'occhio svelto il passo
- Gli esordi
- Gli occhiali d'oro
- I pugnalatori
- I traditori
- I vinti non dimenticano
- Il balordo
- Il castello di Udine
- Il diavolo al Pontelungo
- Il male è nelle cose
- The Devil Will Come
- Prince of Foxes
- Il revisionista
- La battaglia soda
- La croce e la mezzaluna
- La scomparsa di Majorana
- La voce segreta
- Le mosche del capitale
- Maria e i soldati
- Sicilian Folk Medicine
- Non tutti i bastardi sono di Vienna
- Ragazzi che amano ragazzi
- Razza padrona
- Seminario sulla Gioventù
- Sodomie in corpo 11
- Sulla mafia
- The Father - Il padrino dei padrini
- Tornatrás
- Tre
- Trent'anni di mafia
- Un borghese piccolo piccolo
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- Dragonero (Romanzo grafico)
- Piange… il telefono e le più belle canzoni di Domenico Modugno
- The Gravedigger's Daughter
- Dragonero - La maledizione di Thule
- Dragonero - Il risveglio del Potente
- Morgan Lost
- How a Fool Pays His Debts
- Dragonero (Gioco di ruolo)
- Carlo Darwin
- Considerazioni sovra il programma pubblicato dalla reale accademia delle scienze nel giorno 4. di gennaio 1788
- Vivere a sbafo
- La compromissione
- Profondo nero
- L'alba dei morti viventi
- Memorie dall'invisibile
- Dragonero - Oltre i confini dell'Erondàr
- Bilico
- La dama di piazza
- Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger
- La donna dei fili
- The American bride
- The dust roads of Monferrato
- The Alphonse Courrier Affair
- Tolstoj
- The Finger in the Candle Flame
- His mother's House
- Il signor figlio
- Personal Effects
- Poor and Simple
- Nu ferru de calzetta/Tu chi parti e vai luntanu
- L'attore
- I leoni di Sicilia
- Old Women
- Raccogli l'attimo
- Odessa
- Tutti fotografi
- Bassa marea
- Un grande grande grande Tony Renis
- Non arrenderti mai / Bianca luna
- Donna blu / Ho bisogno di te
- In ascensore / Tutto sommato
- Deborah / Non importa se
- Deborah / Down by the Sea
- Foriously Happy
- Mirrors in the brain
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