Anchor: The Italian people, with Latins and Etruscans mixing over themillennia with Greeks, Lombards, Normans, French, and Spaniards, are as fascinatingly diverse as this panoply of landscapes.
Entailed: Italians are a diverse population due to millennia of interactions with other peoples.
Contradiction: The Italian race is a single, pure bloodline.
Contradiction: A crowd of old men cook dinner.
Contradiction: The village was within the valley. 
Contradiction: I don't think he's competent at all, but he's inspiring.
Contradiction: Queen Jeanne de Bourgogne is rumored to have had young lovers thrown into the Seine.