Culture of Italy
The culture of Italy encompasses the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, and social practices associated with the Italian Peninsula and, later, the modern Italian state. Italy has had a significant influence on the development of Western culture and civilisation. The Italian Peninsula was the center of Roman civilisation, which contributed to the spread of Roman law, the Latin alphabet, the Latin language, and institutions that influenced later European societies. Italy was also an important center of the Roman Catholic Church, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Neoclassicism, Futurism, and Fascism. Italian scholars, artists, merchants, explorers, and political movements also contributed to wider European developments such as the Romanesque, Scholasticism, the Age of Discovery, the Scientific Revolution, and European integration. Several institutions in Italy are among the earliest of their kind in Europe, including the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia, the University of Bologna, the...
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