Several shadow cabinets have been declared in Italy:
- The Shadow Cabinet of Italy (1989), launched by Alessandro Natta, Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, after the 1987 Italian general election. The shadow cabinet was officially presented on 19 July 1989
- The Shadow Cabinet of Italy (2008), announced on 15 April 2008, by Walter Veltroni, Secretary of the Democratic Party, after the 2008 Italian general election
Famous quotes containing the words shadow, cabinet and/or italy:
“In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.””
—Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)