Italian Lover Pillows

"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

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

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

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...'

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

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

Galilei Galileo.

'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!'

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

All Roads Lead To Rome

FASHION NOTESFIRST SHOES FROM ITALY

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

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.'

Honestly Norman, would you relax! No one is going to rock the boat! Norman was right to have a suspicious mind.

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

Sergio Mattarella

Anna Magnani

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

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

421AD...north east Italy

'Consummatum est.'

"You just carpe, carpe, carpe."