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  2. Culture of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The works by Alessandro Manzoni, the leading Italian Romantic, are a symbol of the Italian unification for their patriotic message and because of his efforts in the development of the modern, unified Italian language; his novel The Betrothed was the first Italian historical novel to glorify Christian values of justice and Providence, and it is ...

  3. Genetic history of Italy - Wikipedia

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    South Italian samples clustered with southeast and south-central European samples, and northern groups with West Europe. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] A 2004 study by Semino et al. showed that Italians from the north-central regions had around 26.9% J2; the Apulians, Calabrians and Sicilians had 29.1%, 21.5% and 16.7% J2 respectively; the Sardinians had 9.7% J2.

  4. List of Italian regions by Human Development Index - Wikipedia

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    Rank Region or autonomous province HDI (2022) Very high human development 1 Emilia-Romagna 0.935 2 Trentino 0.934 3 Lazio 0.929 4 Lombardy 0.927 5 South Tyrol 0.925 6 Tuscany

  5. Demographics of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italian, adopted by the central state after the unification of Italy, is a language based on the Florentine variety of Tuscan and is somewhat intermediate between the Italo-Dalmatian languages and the Gallo-Romance languages. Its development was also influenced by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.

  6. Italy (geographical region) - Wikipedia

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    The Italian geographic region, Italian physical region or Italian region is a geographical region [1] of Southern Europe delimited to the north by the mountain chains of the Alps. This subregion is composed of a peninsular and continental part and an insular part .

  7. Neoteny in humans - Wikipedia

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    However, humans also have relatively large noses and long legs, both peramorphic (not neotenic) traits, though these peramorphic traits separating modern humans from extant chimpanzees were present in Homo erectus to an even higher degree than in Homo sapiens, which means general neoteny is valid for the H. erectus to H. sapiens transition ...

  8. Italians - Wikipedia

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    Since the development of the Italian film industry in the early 1900s, Italian filmmakers and performers have, at times, experienced both domestic and international success, and have influenced film movements throughout the world. [208] [209] The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers began motion picture ...

  9. Italian peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Satellite view of the peninsula in March 2003. The Italian peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic peninsula, Apennine peninsula, Italian boot, or mainland Italy, is a peninsula, within the Italian geographical region, extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south which comprises much of the country of ...