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Caravaggio went to prison for the. The name Italy (Italia) is an ancient name for the country and people of Southern Italy.

I'm sure it would be a big story to tell if I knew.The Osci, a tribe living around the Bay of Naples, kept cattle and calves on the fertile grasslands of Campania. In their native language, an Italic language known as Oscan, their country was named Viteliu, which also means 'calf-land', because the region was renowed for the excellence and abundance of its cattle.The name "Italy" was later extended by the Romans first to cover Southern Italy and later to include the entire peninsula.Coins bearing the name Italia were minted by an alliance of Italic tribes (Sabines, Samnites, Umbrians and other) competing with Rome in the first century B.C.By the time of emperor Augustus approximately, the multi-ethnic territory of Italy was included in Italia as the central unit of the Empire Cisalpine Gaul, the Upper Po valley, for example, was appended in 42 BC.After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Lombard invasions, "Italy" or "Italian" gradually became the collective name for diverse states appearing on the peninsula and their overseas properties.A popular explanation for the etymoloy of the word is that it stems from an episode of the Labors of Hearcles in Greek Mythology when Eurystheus ordered the hero to bring him the cattle of the monster Geryon. Just as Hercules was escaping with the cattle and bringing it back to Eurystheus, a bull got loose at Rhegium and jumped into the sea. The history of Malta is a long and colourful one dating back to the dawn of civilisation.

However, in the 1950s, the Mafia rose again when mob-backed construction companies dominated the post- World War II building boom in Sicily. Even the Catholic Church was involved with Mafia clans during this period, according to Raab, who notes that the church relied on Mafiosi to monitor its massive property holdings in Sicily and keep tenant farmers in line.The Mafia’s influence in Sicily grew until the 1920s, when Prime Minister Benito Mussolini came to power and launched a brutal crackdown on mobsters, who he viewed as a threat to his Fascist regime. The Mafia became adept at political corruption and intimidated people to vote for certain candidates, who were in turn beholden to the Mafia. The government believed this arrangement would be temporary, lasting just long enough for Rome to gain control instead, the Mafia clans expanded their criminal activities and further entrenched themselves in Sicilian politics and the economy. In the 1870s, Roman officials even asked Sicilian Mafia clans to help them by going after dangerous, independent criminal bands in exchange, officials would look the other way as the Mafia continued its protection shakedowns of landowners.