Brotherly love Quote by Orson Welles

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the…

— Orson Welles

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they…

— Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

— Graham Greene

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living…

— Jerry Saltz

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

— Mark Twain

Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively in Italy?…

— Brandon McCaw

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

“From the 13th century until 1737, Florence was ruled by the wealthy and powerful Medici family. The Medicis were successful in business and politics,…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write…

— Valeria Golino

“the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy”

— Maria Gentile

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

— Tobe Hooper

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of…

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs