‖ romanità
(romaniˈta)
Also with capital initial.
[It., f. next.]
a. = next. b. The spirit or influence of the central Roman authorities of the Roman Catholic Church; acceptance of papal policy.
| 1927 Observer 19 June 13/1 He [sc. Machiavelli] was too great a realist for his intellect to suffer imprisonment by humanist admiration for Rome, or, as we call it today, romanità. 1963 Economist 7 Dec. 1007/2 The assertion of collegial status for the bishops has been advanced jointly with a demand that the Curia should be internationalised... Yet internationalisation by itself is secondary. Indeed, it might sharpen the existing reasons for complaint: foreigners have been known to succumb to Romanita; they lack the engaging and emollient Italian supposition that laws are, on the whole, unlikely to be obeyed. |