ITALY

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1. Oh, woman-country, wooed, not wed,
   Loved all the more by earth's male-lands
   Laid to their hearts instead!—BROWNING, By the Fireside
   

2. Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. Italia! O Italia! thou who hast
   The fatal gift of beauty.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

4. Ah, slavish Italy! thou inn of grief!
   Vessel without a pilot in loud storm!
   Lady no longer of fair provinces,
   But brothel-house impure!—DANTE, Purgatorio
   

5. Home of the Arts! where glory's faded smile
   Sheds lingering light o'er many a mouldering pile.—MRS. HEMANS, Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy
   

6. A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

7. Beyond the Alps lies Italy.—LIVY, History
   

8. Italy is only a geographical expression.—METTERNICH, Memorandum to the Great Powers
   

9. I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.—MUSSOLINI, Autobiography
   

10. Fortunately the Italian people is not yet accustomed to eating several times per day.—MUSSOLINI
    

11. All Italians are plunderers.—NAPOLEON
    

12. The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

13. A paradise inhabited with devils.—SIR HENRY WOTTON, Letters from Italy