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"Italianism" Quotes from Famous Books

... point of semblance in the Teutonism which tinctures the Italian music of both men; a Teutonism which adds an ingredient more to the taste of other peoples than that of the people whose language is employed. But while the Italianism of Mozart was wholly the product of the art-spirit of his time, the Teutonism of Wolf-Ferrari is a heritage from his German father and its Italianism partakes somewhat of the nature of a reversion to old ideals from which even his mother's countrymen have ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... means admit of this Italianism: he would make no distinctions: he deemed philosophers altogether a race of beings dangerous and ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. IV • Maria Edgeworth

... Trentino, the final expression of her anti-Italian policy is to be found in the Adriatic provinces. Here lie Austria's chief interests—the sea and commerce. Here, therefore, is to be found an even deeper fear of Italianism, and here still sterner methods are employed to stamp it out. The government of Trieste is, in fact, organized for that very purpose—witness the persecutions to which the citizens of Italian descent are subjected by the police, ...

— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell