Italophilia
（重定向自Italophile）
![Statue of Augustus, first Roman emperor and creator of](/Images/godic/202501/21/Statue-Augustus3552.jpg")
![Statue of Dante at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence](/Images/godic/202501/21/Dante_Alighieri013552.jpg")
![Michelangelo's
Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica](/Images/godic/202501/21/Michelangelo's_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit3552.jpg")
![Galileo Galilei, the founder of modern science.](/Images/godic/202501/21/Galileo.arp.300pix3552.jpg")
Italophilia is the admiration, appreciation or emulation of Italy, its people, its ideals, its civilization or its culture. Its opposite is Italophobia.
The extent to which Italian civilization has shaped Western civilization and, by extension, the civilization of the whole world, is widely recognized and acknowledged. Appreciation of the legacy of Italic ideals, civilization and culture has existed for many centuries, into the present day.