An Italian man watches an American tourist walking her poodle down the Spanish Steps in Rome. Circa 1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)

La Dolce Vita

Italy in the 1950s

Sophia Loren on location at Ostia Antica for the filming of ‘La Fortuna di Essere Donna’.

1955. (Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images)

The Reschen Lake in southern Tyrol, which covers the sunken village of Graun, on August 13, 1953. (Keystone / Getty Images)

A schoolboy walks through the rain in Saint Mark’s Square, Venice. March 1958. (Koenig/BIPs / Getty Images)

A gondolier navigates his way through Venice. Circa 1950. Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images

A stall holder selling live crabs at a market in an Italian fishing town. Circa 1950. (Felix Man/Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

A tour boat leaves harbor for the ‘Blue Grotto’ on the isle of Capri. Circa 1955. (Nocella/Three Lions / Getty Images)

Italian driver Alberto Ascari steers his Lancia at the finish line of the 1000 Miles race in Rome. May 1954. (Stf / AFP / Getty Images)

A man sells cherries from a market stall in Naples. Circa 1952. (Picture Post/Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

Italy’s Fausto Coppi finishing the seventeenth lap of the bicycle race across Italy. June 1952. (AP Photo/B)

Italians celebrate a May Festival in the village of Bucchianico, near Chieti in Abruzzo. May 1957. Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images

The red light, Rome, 1956 - William Klein

Doorman, Cinecittà, Rome, 1956 - William Klein

Two musicians play instruments in Calabria, southern Italy. Circa 1950. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)

The bustle of tourists, pigeons, and public servants in Venice. Circa 1955. Vecchio/Three Lions / Getty Images

Three priests during a visit to Vatican City. Circa 1955. Vecchio/Three Lions / Getty Images

Picnic, Rome, 1956- William Klein

Young Italian men having lunch in a cafe in Rome and reading the communist paper ‘Unita’ and the socialist ‘Avanti’. Circa 1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)

Ercolano, Italy 1950’s, Fosco Maraini.

Shopping for silverware, Florence, Italy, 1950s. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Italians celebrate a May Festival in the village of Bucchianico, near Chieti in Abruzzo. May 1957. Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images

A young barber at work on an elderly client in Italy. 1955. (Keystone / Getty Images)

A shoeshine boy from Calabria. Circa 1950 Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images

The son of a fisherman looks after his two sisters whilst his parents work in the seas off Calabria. Circa 1950. Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images

Fashion models rest on a street corner, Italy, 1951. Photo by Milton Greene

A Catholic nun in Rome. 1955. Enzo Graffeo / Getty Images

Mystère, via del Corso, Rome, 1956 - William Klein

Gli italiani si voltano, Milano, 1954. Mario De Biasi

Holidaymakers on the beach at Positano. Paul M. Pietzsch/Hulton Archive / Getty Images

British violonist Yehudi Menuhin and his wife Diana eating spaghetti before a concert the Maestro gave in Venice. (Afp / AFP / Getty Images)

A pair of priests read ‘L’Osservatore’ outside St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Circa 1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)

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Nuns waiting for the coming of the Pope, Rome, 1956 - William Klein

Sophia Loren on location at Ostia Antica for the filming of ‘La Fortuna di Essere Donna’ with the French actor Charles Boyer. (Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images)

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