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“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.”
“In Italia, chi si fa valere all'estero non viene considerato.”
“Italy, having entered the war for gain and paid dearly in the outcome, emerged from the peace conference with a strong sense of grievance and with its system of government profoundly undermined. Steadily there after it became the endorser and ally of international gangsterism.”
“Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
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Florence es la capital y la ciudad más poblada de la región italiana de Toscana, y, a partir de 2026, con una población de 361,625, la octava ciudad más poblada del país. También es la capital de la provincia metropolitana homónima, que cuenta con 988,494 habitantes, mientras que Eurostat estima que 696,767 personas viven en el área urbana de Florence. El Área Metropolitana de Florence, Prato y Pistoia, constituida en 2000 sobre un área de aproximadamente 4,800 kilómetros cuadrados (1,850 sq mi), alberga a 1,5 millones de personas.
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