Italian
Standard Italian is also a major language in Monaco. Italian nationals make up 19% of the total population, down from 20% in 2000.
Italian was the ancestral language of the House of Grimaldi, and was the official language of Monaco when it was a Protectorate of the Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1814 to 1861).
Italian is the paternal language of Andrea Casiraghi, Charlotte Casiraghi and Pierre Casiraghi, children of Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover and Heiress Presumptive of Monaco, as her late husband Stefano Casiraghi.
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Famous quotes containing the word italian:
“Their martyred blood and ashes sow
O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“If the study of his images
Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
A waking, as in images we awake,
Within the very object that we seek,
Participants of its being.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Master of Trinity: Is he an Italian?
Harold Abrahams: Of Italian extraction, yes.
Master of Trinity: I see.
Harold Abrahams: But not all Italian.
Master of Trinity: I’m relieved to hear it.
Harold Abrahams: He’s half-Arab.”
—Colin Welland (b. 1934)