Culture Of Italy
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Culture of Italy
From antiquity until the late 16th century, Italy was at the centre of Western culture, fulcrum or origin of Ancient Rome, the Roman Catholic Church, Humanism and the Renaissance. By virtue of its enormous cultural heritage, the Italian Peninsula has frequently been described as "the spiritual empire that transforms and unites Western Civilization."
Etruscan and Samnite cultures flourished in Italy before the emergence of the Roman Empire, which conquered and incorporated them. Phoenicians and Greeks established settlements in Italy beginning several centuries before the birth of Jesus, and the Greek settlements in particular developed into thriving classical civilizations. The Greek ruins in southern Italy are perhaps the most spectacular and best preserved anywhere. With Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in 312, Rome became the open and official seat of the Catholic Church, and Italy has had a profound effect on the development of Christianity and of Western concepts of faith and morality ever since.
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