Italian Culture Fan Gifts

You could be a Medici!

MILAN CHAIR HARVEST

'I wish I'd never bought an Italian car -- it keeps pinching me!'

Dante Alighieri.

I Pagliacci

People ordering 4 types of Negroni in a restaurant.

Gluttons (The Divine Comedy).

Italian Economic Policy...

Luciano Pavarotti

Roberto Benigni

'My little Italian car needs an oil change,try olive?'

'I take it that this will be your first visit to Venice?'

'You know, Don Vito, my name ends with a vowel too.'

Villager

Tartine

'Sorry sir, we've run out of parmesan cheese.'

"I was sent down to the minors and from there to Europe, and one thing just led to another."

Italia tours

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

Panettone

'Another neat trick is to cut regular spaghetti into little pieces, and next thing you know you've got yourself a bowl of spaghetti-i-s.'

Brighton Bersagliere.

Fully aware of the dangerous romance of Venice's canals and bridges, Gwendolyn approached this moment with a degree of caution.

Borgias holding a 'come as you wish to go' party

"Excuse me, but have you ever thought of play the mandolin?"

Gondolier

Pisa Hut.

Italy in Three Days."We're doing Assisi tomorrow. Myra wants to shop red leather jeans."

'We go to Italy in the summer - it's like a home from home for the kids!'

Galilei Galileo.

Marcello Mastroianni.

Michelangelo eh...well you're going to have to come up with some ID!

FASHION NOTESFIRST SHOES FROM ITALY

Tosca on the balcony

'I have a thing about Italian food-my wife has a thing about Italian waiters !'