Italy
Italia
- Valle d'Aosta : Aosta Valley
- Alpi : Alps
- Appennini : Apennine Mountains
- Puglia : Apulia
- Campidoglio : Capitoline Hill
- Dolomiti : Dolomites
- Ercolano (present day): Herculaneum (ancient city)
- Firenze : Florence, English uses the French name
- Genova : Genoa
- Gianicolo : Janiculum, English uses the Latin name
- Lazio : Latium (old-fashioned)
- Livorno : Leghorn (old-fashioned)
- Lombardia : Lombardy
- Mantova : Mantua
- Marche : The Marches (old-fashioned)
- Milano : Milan
- Monferrato : Montferrat, English uses the French name
- Napoli : Naples
- Padova : Padua
- Piemonte : Piedmont, Piemont in local Piemontèis
- Pompei : Pompeii
- Roma : Rome
- Rubicone : Rubicon
- Sardegna : Sardinia
- Sicilia : Sicily
- Siena : Sienna (old-fashioned)
- Siracusa : Syracuse
- Tevere : Tiber
- Torino : Turin
- Toscana : Tuscany
- Trento : Trent (old-fashioned)
- Tirolo : Tirol, English uses local German name
- Venezia : Venice
- Vesuvio : Vesuvius
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Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery—back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)