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1. Of the women of which Italian town did Shakespeare say :'they do let Heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands. Their best Conscience is not to leave it undone, but kept unknown.'?
2. About which Italian town did a hero from one of Shakespeare's most popular plays say : 'There is no world without ______'s walls, But Purgatory, Torture, Hell itself. Hence banished is banished from the world'?
3. A late sixteenth century epigram by one Sir John Harrington remarks that a particular Italian town has a name that - in its Italian version - is the anagram for the Italian word for 'love'. What town may that be?
4. Impressed by the Colosseum , Lord Byron says: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall. And when Rome falls - ___________' . Can you add the next word or words?
5. The "Square" or "Place" of the 'Duomo' is the 'Centro Citta' of many Italian towns. One of the most famous such cathedral squares is the one at Pisa. It groups no fewer than four impressive tourist attractions: the Baptistery, the Cathedral, the Church of the Campo Santo and of course the Leaning Tower. What is the 'nickname'of this famous Square?
6. Of which Italian town is the typical inhabitant said to be 'Largo di bocca' (wide-mouthed), but 'stretto di mano' (keeping his hands shut). In other words those people promise loudly but seldom keep their promises?
7. Which Italian town was called a) 'a white phantom city, whose untrodden streets are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting shadows of the palaces and strips of sky' (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) b) 'a city for beavers' (Ralph Waldo Emerson)?
8. Many of the more famous Italian cities were given nicknames. Firenze being la Bella; Rome la Santa. Which Italian port was nicknamed la Superba?
9. About which Italian town did Florentines say that it was 'Di tre cose è piena , Torri , campane E figli di puttane'. In plain English it meant that it was filled with three things: towers, bells and 'sons of whores'.
10. Because it has very old monuments Ravenna was nicknamed l'antica. Which ancient university town got nicknamed la dotta or the well-instructed?
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