Concept
Italians
Overview
ethnic group native to Italy
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Among Italians, an identity far from complete of language and literature, combined with a geographical position which separates them by a distinct line from other countries, and, perhaps more than every thing else, the possession of a common name, which makes them all glory in the past achievements in arts, arms, politics, religious primacy, science, and literature, of any who share the same designation, give rise…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
Opens on Italians; names Italians.
The legend of the foundation of Rome sets forth that the first colonization was undertaken by a number of Latin gentes (one hundred, so the legend says) united into one tribe. A Sabellian tribe (also said to consist of one hundred gentes) soon followed, and finally a third tribe of various elements, but again numbering one hundred gentes, joined them. The whole tale reveals at the first glance that little more than…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Italians; the term itself is not named.
Long before they were adopted in Italy, the names of Guelf and Ghibeline had been employed in Germany to mark the partisans of the Bavarian Welf and of the Hohenstaufen lords of Waiblingen. On Italian soil they received an extended meaning: Ghibeline stood for Imperialist; Guelf for anti-Imperialist, Papalist, or simply Nationalist. When the names began to be freely used in Florence, which was towards the close of…
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
The author is tied to Italians in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Italians
- Giordano Bruno
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Jews
- Julius Evola
- Giorgio Agamben
- Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)
- Renzo Novatore
- Francesco Giorgi
- Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola
- Aldo Gargani
Related ideas
- Celestial mechanics
- Expressionism
- Fascism
- French Revolution
- Analysis
- Florence
- Francis of Assisi
- Treccani
- Germany
- Anarchism
- Giuseppe Peano
- Gerolamo Cardano
- House of Habsburg
- Italy
- International trade
- Ancient Greek
- Indo-European languages
- Impressionism
- Analytic philosophy
- Julius Caesar
- Justinian I
- Embryology
- Jurisprudence
- Giambattista Vico
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Italian philosophy.