Italy was home to many well-known and influential civilizations, including Italic peoples such as the Etruscans, the Samnites and the Romans, while also hosting cities from important foreign civilizations like the Phoenicians and the Greeks. ![]() Italy has been the starting point of phenomena of international impact such as the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, the Latin alphabet, the Maritime republics, Romanesque art, Scholasticism, the Renaissance and the humanism, the Age of Discovery, Mannerism, the Opera, the Scientific revolution, the Baroque, Neoclassicism, the Risorgimento, the Futurism, Fascism, and European integration. ![]() Italian culture is the culture of the Italians, a Romance ethnic group, and is incredibly diverse spanning the entirety of the Italian peninsula and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. Italy is considered one of the birthplaces of Western civilization and a cultural superpower. Roman mosaic of Virgil, the most important Latin poet of the Augustan period
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