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"For wheresoeer I turn my ravishd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground."
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"How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!"
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican C
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"Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore."
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"[of the Sicilians] They never want to improve. They think themselves perfect. Their vanity is greater than their misery."
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"Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte, Dono infelice di bellezza, ond hai Funesta dote dinfiniti guai Che in fronte scritti per gran dogha porte"
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"Italys youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but thats because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages."
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"Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy."
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