Best set of inventors by far: The following inventions among many others can be credited to Italians: construction: paved roads, arched bridges, aqueducts; Art and music: piano, harpsichord, violin, viola, cello, bass, opera; Science and technology: electric battery (Volta), telephone (Meucci), radio (Marconi), microprocessor (Faggin), moveable type (Castaldi), loudspeaker (Marzi), AC motor (Ferraris), sound on film (Rappazzo), thermometer (Santorio), barometer (Torricelli), compass (Gioja), seismograph (Cecchi), telescope (Galileo), nuclear reactor (Fermi), internal combustion engine (Matteucci, Barsanti), petrol engine (Bernardi), steam turbine (Branca), jet engine (Campini), carburetor (DeCristoforis), hydraulic motor (Ramelli), helicopter (Forlanini), seaplane (Calderara), motor scooter (D'Ascanio), eyeglasses (Spina, D'Armate), torpedo (Luppis), revolver (Broccu); Food: espresso, capucinno, pasta (not invented in China), pizza.
They had the best set of explorers: Marco Polo, Cristoforo Colombo, Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni Caboto, Verrazzano
Best artists and sculptors: Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Botticelli, Ghiberti, Bernini, Donatello, Rafael, many others
Composers: Monteverdi, Cavalli, Vivaldi, Verdi, Paganini, many others
Scientists and mathematicians: Fibonacci, Galilei, Lagrange, Ricci-Curbastro, Fermi, Majorana, Avogrado, Natta, Golgi, Malpighi, many others
Writers, historians and philosophers: Ovid, Livy, Lucretius, Virgil, Cicero, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Marcus Aurelius, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, many others
Pretty much all of the so-called 'finest' physical things in life are made by Italians: the finest paintings, finest sculpture, finest foods, finest clothes, finest cars (Lamborghini, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Pagani), finest construction and building materials. No other nation comes close to matching Italians for craftsmanship.
How can any other country even compete?
No.
Italians are not romans you retard
>>78306572
No what?
>>78306664
Where did the Romans go? To Britain? Kek
How can those dirty anglos even compete?
>>78307836
that's an hungarian girl though, Pelle's gf
>>78306374
>Jet Engine
Frank Whittle
>Steam Turbine
Charles Algernon Parsons
I mean, there's probably some more, but I can't give a fuck to go through them all like some autistic.
Anyway, the thing is you Italians don't need to lie about your accomplishments like the Germans, because you actually have some accomplishments. I see no reason why you do to lie about those.
why are brazilians on this board either super-critical of italy or super -boos?
>>78308557
Perché il 90% dei ««««brasiliani»»»» qui è in realtà sudisti i pauliste, hai un buon sacco di discendenti di italiani tra noi. È meno «-boo» e più «MUH 37/543 ITALIAN HERITAGE!» per alcuni, anca «self-hate» per altri.
Per gli altri, non importa, non danno un cazzo. Ma si, è noioso.