This is a short presentation for #IEApplication about my Country. Here is the answer to question K

1. If all of the world’s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule,
what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?

2. In this time capsule is contained a short
presentation of the beautiful things and charatcteristic
of Italian Country.
Italy has been a country full of history, art, culture and
beautiful landscapes.
People who lived in there are creative and full of
passion and left a huge heritage to the world.

3. Italian territory has thousands of stories to tell…
Here developed the anciest populations:
Greeks settle down in
south Italy and has been
conquered by Romans
Etruscans
Romans
Arabs settle down in south Italy and has been
conquered by Greeks

4. Every ancient population left its sign and contributed to create
the “multi - colored” italian culture.
This is reflected all over the territory with the contrast of
ancient and modern architecture
Venice Milan
Rome

5. This Country is best known all over the world for
his beautiful and very different kind of landscapes:
Lake
Hill
Sea
Mountains

6. Italians have always been creative people and
this is shown in our art’s history:
From traditional art with
author such as:
 Sandro Botticelli
 Giotto
 Leonardo Da Vinci
 Raffaello
 Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio
 Michelangelo Buonarroti
To modern and contemporary art
with outhor such as:
 Maurizio Cattelan
 Arnaldo Pomodoro
 Veneziano Giuseppe
 Gae Aulenti

7. Not only art, but also literature:
“Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!”
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Divina Commedia
 Boccaccio and his masterpiece Decameron
 Petrarch, the first humanist poet
 Macchiavelli and his The Prince
 Ludovico Ariosto and his Orlando’s Mad
 Galileo Galilei
 Torquato Tasso
 Goldoni (first approach to theatre)
 Ugo Foscolo
 Giacomo Leopardi first pessimistic poet
 Alessandro Manzoni and his masterpiece “ i
promessi sposi”
 Giovanni Verga
 Pirandello
 Carducci (firs poet to write about war)
 Gabriele D’Annunzio
And Many others …

8. … Even music and dance, with the Opera
and the Ballet …
Etoile: Eleonora Abbagnato
& Roberto Bolle
Singers at Opera:
Pavarotti & Andrea Bocelli

9. … and Cinema
Italian cinema won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and 12 Palms
d’Or due to:
Great directors: Great Actors:
 Luchino Visconti
 Roberto Rossellini
 Vittorio De Sica
 Fellini
 Giuseppe Tornatore
 Gabriele Salvatores
 Paolo Sorrentino
Roberto Benigni
Gina Lollobrigida
Sophia Loren
Virna Lisi
Stefania Sandrelli
Claudia Cardinale

10. ...Even in the field of science italians
did it right
 Giuliano Golgi won the Nobel Price for medicine
 Ernesto Moneta won the Nobel Price for Peace
 Guglielmo Marconi invented the phone and prelimar form of nowadays communication
 Enrico Fermi won the Nobel Price for Phisics
 Daniel Bovet won the Nobel Price for his contribute in create pharmacology
 Giulio Natta won the Nobel Price for chemistry
 Salvador Edoardo Luria won the Nobel Price for his contribute to the moder genetic
 Renato Dulbecco won the Nobel Price due to his contribution on the research of tumor
 Franco Modigliani won the Nobel Price for Economy
 Rita Levi Montalcini the first woman of medicine field to won a Nobel Price
 Dario Fo won the Nobel Prince for be an example of man of culture

11. Due to territory resources, the most
appreciated thing of Italy is Food:
From
North
To
South
Everything is delicious

12. … And also whine is
From
North
To middle Italy
To South

13. Last but not less important italian contribution to
the world is Fashion.
Italian brands and luxury products are known all over the world;
from cars, to luxury purse and jewels and dresses.
Valentino
Dolce and Gabbana
Gucci
Ferrari
Versace

14. As you can see Italy is a beatiful country and
fulll of amazing surprises.
In every place and every moment you can
learn new things and be astonished by the
beaty hidden in every little detail and in every
warm person.