Has Italy done anything of note ever since the French Revolution...

Italian cinema was the most prolific in the world during the 60's and 70's. During one year - alone - 60+ Spaghetti westerns were produced.

France is far more culturally unified than most other European nations, and it's been that way for hundreds of years. Italian unification itself was very unlikely without French assistance.

Il sorpasso ([il sorˈpasso]; Italian for "the overtaking") is a term used by Italian press and commentators to designate the 1987 Italy's overtaking of Britain's economy in nominal GDP terms.[1] Italy's per capita income was $15,120 by 1989, compared with Britain's $14,160 (and the USA's $20,630).[2] Italy was now the fifth largest economy in the world, after United States, Japan, West Germany, and France. The United Kingdom regained its position over Italy in 1997.

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Seventh largest economy on Earth.

>Fascism is still revered in Italy
No it isn't, fuck off.
t. Italian

Yes it is, fuck off
t. Italian

In 2009, Britain was briefly overtaken by Italy for a second time, leading the Italian ambassador, Giancarlo Aragona, to talk of a secondo sorpasso.[3]

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Italian century!

t. zecca

mazzini, garibaldi, cavour and leo xiii were some notable figures in the 19th century.

some scientists/inventors include marconi, fermi, golgi, avogadro

cesare lombroso is considered the founding father of criminology and his impact of his writings on biology and crime on the western world cannot be overstated, even though they were quite negative and pseudoscientific according to our standards today.

>and it's been that way for hundreds of years.
since 1870* sweetie

Can someone tell me why there are so many Italian astronauts?

They seem to dominate ESA more than other big countries like France, Germany, the UK, and Spain.

also forgot to mention alessandro volta, which is where the name of the measurement "volt" derives from

objectively speaking, it is.
t.Mario l'italiano

also to further labor the point, i only touched the tip of the iceberg regarding italian scientists in the 19th and 20th centuries. of course, other countries also have notable number of scientists, but this is just to show that Italy hasn't "done nothing" since the napoleonic wars.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_scientists

they'll do anything to escape italy

Host of socialism and fascism
Showed the Russians their stuffing
Reignited debate over the rightful heirs of Rome
Weakened the Austrians to the point they allied with the eternal Hozenhollern

But the trains ran on time

Italy is weird. It has the GDP of Russia, yet you never hear anything from the country other than the shenanigans of Berlusconi.

>you never hear anything from the country
That's a weird thing to say. Sure you don't hear anything about them as a diplomatic power, but they're always talked about regarding fashion, sports, cars, the arts, etc.

Well I guess I meant the former, you are definitely right on the latter.

right, which is still unusual, because as an economy and political entity they're not small at all. The conservation always seems to be dominated by Germany, France, etc.

because italy has always been the "least of the great powers" on the european continent.

lol rekt

sad!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_of_the_Great_Powers

what about casa pound?

I kept seeing hammer and sickles all over Rome when I was there (7 years ago).

>Italian Unification is complete
Then explain why every bumfuck Italian village wants to declare independence to revive "XYZizzo heritage"

Italy is a proud SOCIALIST country

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Your elections would seem to indicate otherwise. How many seats did CPI take, again?

We barely understand eachothers dialects and have fierce civic pride in our regions
t.pasta

Italy has produced some great mathematicians and scientists in the last 200 years.

Italy's still a good nation, but is sadly dwarfed by its regional neighbors in France and Germany, but still pulls its weight in contributing to the world in the arts, sciences, mathematics, and literature.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_Nobel_laureates

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_inventions

Though if you want to focus on just recent Italian inventions, Marconi and Fermi are the most notable for the first radio transmissions and the first working nuclear reactor respectively.

Im surprised about this too. Alot of celestial scientists are italian from my observation.

kek

The Sicilian mafia is pretty interesting.

It blows my mind how a tiny country like Italy manages to have a bigger economy than Russia

you forgetting someone?

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It just shows economic might does not hinge on raw resources and if you sit on vast territory but have fuckall population, infrastructure and economic activity and you do nothing but pilfer what's left, you're a textbook showcase of mediocrity.

Italy isnt even that impressive it just isnt a shithole.

Italy is pretty impressive considering they have pretty much zero competitive advantages and a shitload of geographic disadvantages.
It fairly boggles the mind to always see people expect Italy to outperform everyone else ever.

Italy outperforms everyone else in quality
Think about it, made in Italy is a sign of prestige, and people are willing to pay, and pay a lot simply because of that

>made in Italy is a sign of prestige
Unless it's a tech appliance

>tech appliance
Italy doesn't really produce any internationally exported consumer tech appliances, so it's a weird thing to say. And at the industrial level there are many top level cutting edge tech italian businesses, so it would be rather weird to give Italy a bad rep on tech stuff.

>Can someone tell me why there are so many Italian astronauts?
The whole field of the space sciences is extremely developed in Italy, with many firms (nowadays mostly consolidated into the corporation Leonardo, a world tier key player in the sector) providing much of ESA's material requirements. There's likely some partecipation quotas depending on general contributions which Italy likely beasts at.

Do cars count as tech?
In that case Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, and Ducati for motorbikes

>music
>good flicks

More like for 80 years, the Parisian government’s campaign of cultural eradication only really came in force after WWI

Let's not forget Aprilia and MV Agusta among top level motorcycle tech companies.
Also Pagani and Bimota-Vyrus are niche but pretty innovative cutting edge companies.
And are firearms tech appliances? Because between Beretta, Benelli, Franchi, etc Italy is a top level producer in that field too. And Finmeccanica's many many subsidiaries for all military level shit, from artillery to aircrafts and aircraft carriers.
Itlay also produces a shitload of medical imagery stuff (and lots of pharma in general for that matter).
It must be said that complete products aren't the meat of Italy's exports, but they are a top level components manifacturer. You can be sure you're buying partially italian products everytime you buy something made in Germany.

>Italian Unification is complete
Top kek, best joke in the thread - 11/10.

>North wants to split
>Süd-Tyrol wants to split
>Trieste wants to be independent
>Friuli-Venezia-Giulia fights against Veneto for whoever holds the rights of Tiramisu
>Sicily wants independence too
>Naples is a state-within-a-state
>Apulia just says NO to whatever the state wants to do
>some people still prefer to speak with their original dialect rather than speaking standard Italian
>rival cities hating each other "because it's tradition"

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>only retarded want to divide north and south,most want a more federalist model
>fucking german shouldn't have lost the world war
>literally never heard of this and internet yeld no result either
>literally nothing
>sicily will collapse if they become indipendent
>naples is a shithole their opinion don't matter
>political problem that emerged in modern times mean that they aren't Italian
>everyone know both nothing wrong with that
>99% banter

to be fair enough lega is the second party

>lega is still a separatist movement

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lega isn't a northern secessionist party anymore. it even has a following in the south of the country. that's why its called the league and not the northern league anymore.

yes, but still it pushes for federalism and authonomy, it is in their program

that's a farcry from saying "the north wants to split" famiglia