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Quiz: Guess the Italian – Part 2

The second in this series of quiz posts featuring cut down and distorted images of famous Italian personalities and celebrities for you to guess.

A collateral effect of this quiz is that it may help those who are coming to Italy to live or work to get to know Italy a little better and to understand who is who and what they do. Call it a form of cultural familiarisation, if you will.

This Guess the Italian Quiz is just for fun and to see what people who are not Italian know about Italians. While Italians are welcome to have a go, I’d prefer it if they gave those who are not Italian a chance to guess.

Thanks Italians!

On to this week’s image.

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Can You Guess Who this Famous Italian Is?

If you think you know – please leave a comment – thanks.

I’ll give you until Wednesday next week, and then add clues until somebody guesses the person in the photograph.

Note this is just for fun and there are no prizes.

Happy Guessing and have a good weekend.

Chad

+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

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