Official – Repubblica Italiana (Italiano)
Other – Italia (it-al-ja)
Citizens – Italiani
Language – Italiano
Capital – Roma (row-ma)
Radio – Radio 105 Milano http://www.105.net/home

Italian developed as a successor to the Latin Language of the Romans. “When Italy was unified, in 1861, Italian existed mainly as a literary language, and was spoken by less than 3% of the population. Different languages were spoken throughout Italian peninsula, many of which were romance languages which had developed in every region, due to political fregmentation of Italy.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy