Italian
Standard Italian is also a major language in Monaco. Italian nationals make up 19% of the total population, down from 20% in 2000.
Italian was the ancestral language of the House of Grimaldi, and was the official language of Monaco when it was a Protectorate of the Kingdom of Sardinia (from 1814 to 1861).
Italian is the paternal language of Andrea Casiraghi, Charlotte Casiraghi and Pierre Casiraghi, children of Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover and Heiress Presumptive of Monaco, as her late husband Stefano Casiraghi.
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Famous quotes containing the word italian:
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of “style.” But while style—deriving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets—suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)
“If the study of his images
Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
A waking, as in images we awake,
Within the very object that we seek,
Participants of its being.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Master of Trinity: Is he an Italian?
Harold Abrahams: Of Italian extraction, yes.
Master of Trinity: I see.
Harold Abrahams: But not all Italian.
Master of Trinity: I’m relieved to hear it.
Harold Abrahams: He’s half-Arab.”
—Colin Welland (b. 1934)