Italian Lover Gifts

"Not only do they all speak fluent English, but they keep correcting your grammar."

Right to Rome

Tartine

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

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

Leaning Wine Bottle of Pisa

"Now you've seen the bust how about letting me see Naples?"

Mea Maxima Cuppa

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

Statue is moved to hold up the leaning tower of Pisa.

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

'My real name is Bellis Perennis, but you can call me Daisy!'

Tosca stabs Scarpia

"Hail, Caesar! The barbarians have been beaten back, and Rome is still Numero Uno."

'Did anyone tell her we're from another planet?'

'Mum, I don't care what these nasty kids say about my brothers Romulus and Remus being adopted: I love them all the same...'

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

Galilei Galileo.

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

'Turn right at the Robinia pseudoacacia, pass the garden with the salvia officinalis, cross the road when you see the stranvaesia davidinia and the pub is on the left!'

All Roads Lead To Rome

The tulip knew it was in trouble when called by its scientific name.

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

FASHION NOTESFIRST SHOES FROM ITALY

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

'Ahh, the '74 Amarone. Unfortunately, I can't sell it to you. There's no possible way you'd appreciate it.'

'Your efforts, and the little Latin quotes you drop into your email, have not gone unrecognized.'

421AD...north east Italy

'We think Rome was built at night sir, because last week you told us that Rome wasn't built in a day!'

Sergio Mattarella

'Consummatum est.'

"Yes, a lie. I've been living a lie, I'm not Italian at all."

"You just carpe, carpe, carpe."

Pisa and sons.