1.
An Italian man watches an American
tourist walking her poodle down the
Spanish Steps in Rome. Circa 1955.
(Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)

2.
La Dolce Vita
Italy in the 1950s

3.
Sophia Loren on location at Ostia Antica for
the filming of ‘La Fortuna di Essere Donna’.
1955. (Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images)

4.
The Reschen Lake in southern Tyrol,
which covers the sunken village of
Graun, on August 13, 1953. (Keystone
/ Getty Images)

5.
A schoolboy walks through the
rain in Saint Mark’s Square,
Venice. March 1958. (Koenig/BIPs
/ Getty Images)

6.
A gondolier navigates his
way through Venice. Circa
1950. Evans/Three Lions /
Getty Images

7.
A stall holder selling live crabs at a
market in an Italian fishing town. Circa
1950. (Felix Man/Hulton Archive / Getty
Images)

8.
A tour boat leaves harbor for the
‘Blue Grotto’ on the isle of
Capri. Circa 1955.
(Nocella/Three Lions / Getty
Images)

9.
Italian driver Alberto Ascari steers his
Lancia at the finish line of the 1000
Miles race in Rome. May 1954. (Stf /
AFP / Getty Images)

10.
A man sells cherries
from a market stall in
Naples. Circa 1952.
(Picture Post/Hulton
Archive / Getty Images)

11.
Italy’s Fausto Coppi finishing the
seventeenth lap of the bicycle race
across Italy. June 1952. (AP Photo/B)

12.
Italians celebrate a May Festival
in the village of Bucchianico, near
Chieti in Abruzzo. May 1957. Enzo
Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images

13.
The red light, Rome, 1956 - William Klein

14.
Doorman, Cinecittà, Rome, 1956 -
William Klein

15.
Two musicians play
instruments in Calabria,
southern Italy. Circa 1950.
(Evans/Three Lions / Getty
Images)

16.
The bustle of tourists,
pigeons, and public
servants in Venice. Circa
1955. Vecchio/Three Lions
/ Getty Images

17.
Three priests during a visit
to Vatican City. Circa 1955.
Vecchio/Three Lions /
Getty Images

18.
Picnic, Rome,
1956- William
Klein

19.
Young Italian men having lunch in a cafe in
Rome and reading the communist paper
‘Unita’ and the socialist ‘Avanti’. Circa
1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)

20.
Ercolano, Italy
1950’s, Fosco
Maraini.

21.
Shopping for silverware,
Florence, Italy, 1950s.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

22.
Italians celebrate a May Festival in
the village of Bucchianico, near
Chieti in Abruzzo. May 1957. Enzo
Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images

23.
A young barber at work on
an elderly client in Italy.
1955. (Keystone / Getty
Images)

24.
A shoeshine
boy from
Calabria. Circa
1950
Evans/Three
Lions / Getty
Images

25.
The son of a fisherman looks
after his two sisters whilst his
parents work in the seas off
Calabria. Circa 1950.
Evans/Three Lions / Getty
Images

26.
Fashion models rest on
a street corner, Italy,
1951. Photo by Milton
Greene

27.
A Catholic nun in Rome.
1955. Enzo Graffeo /
Getty Images

28.
Mystère, via del
Corso, Rome, 1956
- William Klein

29.
Gli italiani si voltano, Milano, 1954.
Mario De Biasi

30.
Holidaymakers on the beach at
Positano. Paul M. Pietzsch/Hulton
Archive / Getty Images

31.
British violonist Yehudi
Menuhin and his wife Diana
eating spaghetti before a
concert the Maestro gave in
Venice. (Afp / AFP / Getty
Images)

32.
A pair of priests read
‘L’Osservatore’ outside
St Peter’s Basilica in
Vatican City. Circa 1955.
(Evans/Three Lions /
Getty Images)

33.
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Nuns waiting for the coming of
the Pope, Rome, 1956 -
William Klein

34.
Sophia Loren on location at Ostia Antica
for the filming of ‘La Fortuna di Essere
Donna’ with the French actor Charles
Boyer. (Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images)
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