"Il Canto degli Italiani" is a patriotic song written by Goffredo Mameli and set to music by Michele Novaro in 1847,currently used as the national anthem of Italy. It is best known among Italians as the "Inno di Mameli",after the author of the lyrics,or "Fratelli d'Italia",from its opening line. The piece,in 4/4 time signature and B-flat major key,has six strophes,and a refrain sung after each. The sixth group of verses,almost never performed,recalls the first strophe's text.
Marco Pantani was an Italian road racing cyclist,widely regarded as one of the greatest climbing specialists in the history of the sport by measures of his legacy,credits from other riders,and records. He recorded the fastest ever climbs up the Tour's iconic venues of Mont Ventoux (46:00) and Alpe d'Huez (36:50),and other cyclists including Lance Armstrong and Charly Gaul have hailed Pantani's climbing skills. He is the second to last rider and one of only eight to ever win the Tour de France –Giro d'Italia double,doing so in 1998. He is the sixth of seven Italians,after Ottavio Bottecchia,Gino Bartali,Fausto Coppi,Gastone Nencini and Felice Gimondi,and before Vincenzo Nibali to win the Tour de France.
The Giro d'Italia is an annual multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Italy,while also starting in,or passing through,other countries. The first race was organized in 1909 to increase sales of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport,and the race is still run by a subsidiary of that paper's owner. The race has been held annually since its first edition in 1909,except during the two world wars. As the Giro gained prominence and popularity,the race was lengthened,and the peloton expanded from primarily Italian participation to riders from all over the world. The Giro is a UCI World Tour event,which means that the teams that compete in the race are mostly UCI WorldTeams,with some additional teams invited as 'wild cards'.
Campione d'Italia,is a comune of the Province of Como in the Lombardy region of Italy and an enclave surrounded by the Swiss canton of Ticino. It is also an exclave. At its closest,the enclave is less than one kilometre (0.6 mi) from the rest of Italy,but the intervening mountainous terrain requires a journey by road through the Swiss village of Bissone of over 14 km (9 mi) to reach the nearest Italian town,Lanzo d'Intelvi,and over 28 km (17 mi) to reach the city of Como.
Unione Calcio AlbinoLeffe is an Italian association football club representing Albino and Leffe,two small towns located in Val Seriana,Lombardy. The club played in Serie B for nine consecutive years and narrowly missed promotion in Serie A at the end of the 2007–08 season. It currently plays in Serie C and has been in the Italian third tier since its relegation in 2011–12.
Marco Pinotti is an Italian former road racing cyclist,who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. An individual time trial specialist,Pinotti was a six-time Italian Time Trial Champion.
The Casinòdi Campione is one of Italy's oldest Casinos,as well as Europe’s largest casino and the largest employer in the municipality of Campione d'Italia,an Italian exclave within Switzerland's Canton of Ticino,on the shores of Lake Lugano.
Il Popolo d'Italia was an Italian newspaper published from 15 November 1914 until 24 July 1943. It was founded by Benito Mussolini as a pro-war newspaper during World War I,and it later became the main newspaper of the Fascist movement in Italy after the war. It published editions every day with the exception of Mondays.
Mercatone Uno–Scanavino is a former professional cycling team which was based in San Marino and then in Italy. Throughout the 1990s it was one of the strongest Italian cycling teams in the peloton. The team was sponsored by a chain of supermarkets in Italy.
The 1998 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth race of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 May 1998 at the Mugello Circuit.
il Fatto Quotidiano is an Italian daily newspaper owned by Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A. and published in Rome. It was founded on 23 September 2009 and was edited by Antonio Padellaro until 2015,when Marco Travaglio became the editor. The three deputy editors are Marco Lillo,Salvatore Cannavòand Maddalena Oliva.
Giro Next Gen,also known as Baby Giro,Girobio,Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23 or Giro Ciclistico d'Italia,is an Italian road bicycle racing amateur stage race created in 1970.
Brothers of Italy is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy,that is currently the country's ruling party. It became the largest party after the 2022 Italian general election. The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy. Meloni's tenure has been described as the "most right-wing" republican government in Italy since World War II,whilst her time in government is frequently described as a shift towards the far-right in Italian politics.
Fausto Masnada is an Italian cyclist,who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.
National Youth is the youth wing of Brothers of Italy (FdI). It was founded on 5 May 2014.
Andrea Vendrame is an Italian cyclist,who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale. Professional since 2014,he has most notably won the 12th stage of the 2021 Giro d'Italia,outsprinting Chris Hamilton from the breakaway.
The National Movement for Sovereignty was a national-conservative political party in Italy,founded on 18 February 2017,with the merger of National Action and The Right. Its founders were Gianni Alemanno and Francesco Storace,both former ministers and former leaders of the two founding parties,respectively.
Marco Riccioni is an Italian rugby union prop who currently plays for Saracens and Italy.
The Young Italy was the youth wing of The People of Freedom (PdL),a political party in Italy.
