Southern Italy is warmer, surrounded by sea water and has several Islands, the largest being Sicily, belonging to it. ... When doing business, it may be best to entrust face-to-face negotiations to a man rather than a woman. ... Italian grooms are usually several years older than their brides, sometimes almost a generation older. An older man feels less threatened by the experience of a younger woman than he might by the experiences that a woman his own age is likely to have had with other men. For example, a twenty-five year old man who courts an eighteen year old girl and they become en...

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Very close and friendly relations between the goldsmiths and the painters existed in that time, so that Sandro, who was a creative young man and devoted to drawing, became attracted to painting, and resolved to take it up. ... He remained adamant in his determination to stop working and due to this he became so poor in his old age that if he had not been helped by friends and many wealthy men who admired his genius, he would practically have died of hunger. ... Either he himself, or one of his learned friends, probably explained to the painter what was known of the way the ancients had represe...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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