As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.
I am going to Sicily next month. I am going to have my grandson baptized thanks to an older woman who knows the parish priest. My question is how much of a donation should I give the priest? This is a very small village. what should I do for the widow who arranged this, she is well past 80 years old.
thank you
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...
