Italy

Italian customs were made ultimately to conform to those of the leading State, and the free cities of Italy became the municipalities of Rome.

The third tendency—that of the unification of Rome with Italy,—although it had begun to be felt in isolated cases from a very early period of Roman History, may be said to have received its final impulse at the close of the great war for Italian freedom, generally known as the Social war, in 89 b.

At the close of the republic, and during the first centuries of the empire, all Italy, with the exception of Rome, was composed of a number of townships;

No doubt, the instability of society in ancient Italy, composed as it was in great measure of robber tribes, gave men considerable inducement to locate themselves in the territory of any community strong enough to protect itself and them from external attack, even though protection should be purchased at the cost of heavy taxation, political disfranchisement, and much social humiliation.

It was not indeed in France, but in Italy, that the juridical science of modern Europe took its rise, but of the schools founded by emissaries of the Italian universities in all parts of the continent, and attempted (though vainly) to be set up in our island, that established in France produced the greatest effect on the for tunes of the country.

Spain, Naples, and the principalities founded on the ruins of municipal freedom in Italy, were all under rulers whose sovereignty was territorial.

On his course to Sicily and return from it, he also communicated with certain cities in Italy on the subject of friendship with the Athenians.

and to Italy, that either we may gain their alliance for ourselves, or they may refuse to receive the Athenians.

When the whole armament had made the coast at the Iapygian foreland, and Tarentum, and as they severally could, they sailed along the coast of Italy, as the cities did not afford them a market, or the protection of their walls, but only water and anchorage, (and Tarentum and Locri not even these,) until they came to Rhegium, a promontory of Italy.

Italy has achieved freedom, unity, and independence.

But who can deny that the administration of Lombardy may have been as good under the Austrians as now under the rule of an Italian monarch, or that Napoleon might have conferred upon Spain an administrative system which, from a utilitarian point of view, would have been far preferable to any scheme of government which has for centuries existed in the Spanish Peninsula?

To the bishops of Italy and Gaul, concerning the condition and confusion of the churches.

To speak briefly, the resolve has prevailed that this same brother of ours, Dorotheus, should cross over to Rome, to rouse some of those from Italy to a visitation of us, going by sea so as to escape those who would hinder them.

who, having come into Italy in the reign of Tarquinius Superbus, held that Great Greece in his grip both by his teaching and by his authority, and for many ages thereafter the name of the Pythagoreans so flourished that no others seemed learned.

they say that Plato came into Italy to acquaint himself with the Pythagoreans, and learned all things Pythagorean, and was the first not only to hold the same view as Pythagoras concerning the eternity of souls, but also to bring forward a reason for it.

After Amafinius, moreover, many rivals of the same system, having written much, occupied all Italy;

Nay, they arrived at such a pitch of folly that at a time when they were not masters of their own suburbs they expected to extend their power over Italy and Sicily and Carthage.

However, they were not satisfied with perpetrating these crimes, but about the same time were ravaging the Asiatic coast, committing outrages against the islands, subverting the free governments in Italy and Sicily, setting up despotisms in their stead, overrunning the Peloponnesus and filling it with seditions and wars.

After the dark ages, a manufacturing superiority appeared in Italy and France, without any special patronage from their disorganized governments, because those countries surpassed the rest of Europe in knowledge;

The divisions, balances or limitations of power, in Greece, Italy, and England, had all been the result of civil wars, personal ambition, or domestick commotions;

Liberty's Father himself, with his rites, the consuls, by the senate's authority, banished not only from the city but from all Italy.

For if Jupiter reigned in Crete and Saturn in Italy and Isis in Egypt, men too have reigned, to whom indeed many are reported to have done service.

For after very many lands and Attic hospitalities he settled in Italy — or, as it was then called, Oenotria — received by Janus, or Jane, as the Salii call it.

Father Liber with his mysteries the consuls, by the senate's authority, drove out not only from the city but from all Italy.

in short, all Italy, after the name Oenotria, was surnamed Saturnia.

and so far as the evidence of facts goes, I nowhere find more trustworthy testimony than in Italy itself, in which Saturn settled after many wanderings, and after his Attic sojourn, received by Janus — or Janes, as the Salii would have it.

I have been sent on missions to Thessaly, to Macedonia, to Molossia, to Thesprotia, to Italy, and to Sicily.

Cicero returned to Italy, where Cæsar treated him magnanimously, and for some time he devoted himself to philosophical and rhetorical writing.

and Aeneas reigned over all Italy and founded the greatest city of all.

For Aeneas, sent by Hector with a fleet and much force, possessed Italy, the most prosperous country of Europe;

The senate of Rome said, that they could receive no embassy from Carthage, as long as the Carthaginian army remained in Italy.

Jugurtha’s ambassadors too, as Sallust informs us, were ordered to leave Italy within the space of ten days, unless they came with offers from that prince to surrender himself, and his kingdom.

But perhaps many might even laugh at my simplicity if I should lament the misfortunes of individual men, in times like these, when Italy has been laid waste, when Sicily has been enslaved, when such mighty cities have been given over to the barbarians, and when the remaining portions of the Hellenic race are in the gravest peril.

Italy 2.

Besides these powers, Italy takes an eager part in the production of philosophical ideas in the period of ferment before Descartes.

Thus philosophy, also, joins in that great stream of culture, the Renaissance and humanism, which, starting from Italy, poured forth over the whole civilized world.

Provided, that this Act, or anything therein contained, shall not extend, nor be construed to extend to any silk or silk wares which shall be brought by land from any part of Italy, and there bought with the proceed of English commodities, sold either for money or in barter;

but Pythagoras so inactive and unwarlike that, shunning the battles of Greece then, he preferred the quiet of Italy, devoted to geometry and astrology and music, a stranger to the study and affection of Euphorbus.

But we find, even in the Commentaries on Human Antiquities, that the human race has gradually grown beyond measure, while the Aborigines, or wanderers, or exiles, or any glory-seekers occupy lands — as the Scythians occupied the Parthian lands, as the Temenidae the Peloponnese, as the Athenians Asia, as the Phrygians Italy and the Phoenicians Africa — while there are also solemn migrations, which …

when the side of Italy, once shaken away as far as the middle by the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian, leaves its relics, making Sicily;

But if you adjoin Italy, you have Rome, whence authority is at hand for us too.

In other parts of Europe—in Germany, France, and Italy, as in Scotland—the ablest monarchs found their thrones endangered by this feudal current.

Prussia and Turkey-in-Asia look like two animals walking, Austria like a big dog lying down, Italy like a leg, and some people say that England and Ireland resemble a little girl taking care of a baby-a very noisy baby.

and when they had sailed past him, Antalcidas turned about and came back to Abydus, for he had heard that Polyxenus was approaching with the ships from Syracuse and Italy, twenty in number, and he wished to join these also to his command.