italy, n.All

Italy is a place that ends up giving one a nostalgia for grey.

Italy is a country with two things to balance its miserable poverty and mismanagement: a lively intellectual movement and a good climate. Ireland is Italy without these two.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

Italy is tender like cooked macaroni, yards and yards of soft tenderness ravelled round everything.

Italy is a country whose technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.

Italy is a poor country full of rich people.

Italy is the most-tattooed nation on earth; 48% of the adult population has at least one tattoo

Italians eat so much pasta and bread, the goverment will give gluten-intolerant citizens a stiped of up to 140 euros per month to buy gluten-free food.

Italy is a crypto-matriachy whereby men run the country but women run men.

Italy spent $50,000,000 bailing out the Parmesan cheese industry in 2008.

Italy is anarchy tempered by bureaucracy.