Italy Flashcards
Sicily has the Mafia. This city/region has the Camorra, a similar crime syndicate which follows a more horizontal, tribal structure.
Naples / Campania
The Sicilian mafia is also known by this Italian phrase, which translates to “Our Thing.”
“Cosa Notra”
This was the title given to an elected lord and chief of state in many Italian city-states (i.e., crowned republics) during the medieval and renaissance periods. The best known of these republics was Venice.
Doge
This royal family held the Italian monarchy from the country’s unification in 1861 until its constitutional referendum and formation into a republic in 1946. Its kings included Victor Emmanuel II and Umberto I.
House of Savoy
In what Italian city are the Palazza Madama and the Castello del Valentino? Along with other buildings, they form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as “Residences of the Royal House of Savoy.”
Turin
This group, originally founded as the police force for the Kingdom of Sardinia, today operates as the military police force in Italy and is one of the country’s four armed forces.
Carabinieri
Born in Italy in 1850, this Sacred Heart founder was canonized after her death in Chicago.
Frances Xavier Cabrini / “Mother Cabrini”
This 1929 treaty, signed by Mussolini and the Pope, made Vatican City into a country.
Lateran Treaty
What woman is widely (though probably incorrectly) regarded as the first in Italy to receive a medical degree, though her greatest fame is as an educator who developed (in the early 20th century) a novel approach to teaching young children?
Maria Montessori
The 13th-century mathematician Leonardo of Pisa was posthumously given a name by which he is best-known today, after the name’s alleged 1838 inventor Guillaume Libri shared it (maybe?) with two people, who then shared it with three people, who then shared it with five people, who then shared it with eight people, and so on, and so on. What is this name?
Fibonacci
