Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From these portents, it appeared how keen and vital is the rivalry of Britain and Italy in Africa. Indeed, both the British and Italian governments have spent sums large enough to be fairly called "excessive" in an effort to entertain King Fuad so sumptuously that the hearts of Egyptians may be sensibly touched in return...
When this proposal was broached last week at Rome, the news traveled swiftly to Paris and there drew a loud, whinnying tening expedition, and seemed to have in mind that he would climb up the Italian side of Mont Blanc and perform the rechristening in despite of any French Alpinists who might be lurking near the summit...
...Fascismo has its muskets, and above all it has its courage and in domitable spirit and in its veins runs the magnificent Italian blood which does not give way in face of danger, which loves to fight and is patient of pain and suffering. We could have resigned ourselves to continuing to be a small nation, tolerated by Europe and by the world. But we have chosen the more difficult road because we know that it will lead to liberty and greatness...
Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...
...modern painting had its inception in Italy in that period usually referred to by Anglican historians as the Renaissance but more aptly designated (from the painter's point of view) by the Italians as quartocento and quintocento. More aptly, because painting of the 14th and 15th Centuries did not so much represent a "rebirth of antiquity" (since ancient Greek paintings were not rediscovered then, as were ancient. Greek sculpture and criticism) as a quickening self-consciousness on the part of the individual artist, accompanied by zeal for personal inspection of realities as they appeared to him. The result...