By Mariella Radaelli

Since my Italian-American Italy has long been renowned for its miracles in stone. From Roman amphitheaters and aqueducts to Michelangelo's David, the people from this mountainous land have produced creations that made history.

The Latins converted the untamed into cultivated spaces, laying claim to new territories. "Urbem latericium invenit, marmorea reliquit", Emperor Augustus stated proudly, meaning that he found a Rome of bricks and left behind a city marble.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano