North Italy (N. Italy)

**Italy** (イタリア *Itaria*) is a main character in the series **Hetalia: Axis Powers**. He is the representation of the northern part of Italy and is part of the Axis Powers. He is also referred to as **Italia Veneziano** (イタリア・ヴェネチアーノ *Itaria Venechiāno*). His actual name is Feliciano Vargas (フェリチアーノ・ヴァルガス *Ferichiāno Varugasu*) while he takes the name of Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), Northern Italy.

His Birthday is on March 17th.

## Appearance

He has short brown hair and brown eyes, with a curl on the left side of his head, which acts as his erogenous zone when stroked or pulled. He is 172 cm tall, despairing at the 8 cm difference between him and Germany, as seen in episode 11. He wears a blue WWII military uniform, a black shirt and tie, and black boots. In earlier strips, his hair was shown smoother, and his curl was drawn smaller, a change which was noted in a gag illustration. Italy's eyes were depicted as gray in the earliest artwork of him, but quickly changed to brown.

In his first appearance in both versions of the manga, and the first two episodes of the anime, he wore a tan uniform that looked almost similar to his brother's, aside from being drawn as a jumpsuit in the manga (though it was shown as a two-piece suit in the anime).

As a child, he wore dresses, and was often mistaken for a girl by Holy Roman Empire, Austria, and numerous others. When not in uniform, he can often be seen dressed in a white sailor suit-style top (with blue collar, necktie, and sleeve bands) and blue shorts.

## Personality

Italy is a cheerful, energetic man, who went from being the kin of Ancient Rome, to an irresponsible crybaby. He loves pasta, pizza, gelato, and cheese. Although he relies on Germany a lot, Italy doesn't really listen to what he says and instead daydreams or wanders off. His hobbies include cooking, siestas, painting, singing and also flirts with any cute girl he sees.

In the webcomic and the first drama CD, it is noted that he frequently gets stomach pains due to overindulging on gelato. Italy is shown to have a compulsion of stripping off all of his clothes for his daily 3PM "siestas", and usually forgets to put his pants back on after he wakes back up (causing Germany to have to lend him a pair of his own). His public nudity has become notorious enough to where Switzerland will fire upon him if he catches him streaking throughout his homeland.

He also has the verbal tic of making a "Ve" sound (really said by Italians, above all in Emilia-Romagna, whereas you could hear a "Be" in other Italian regions, which is an abbreviation of "bene", "good", and it has the same function of the English interjection "well" at the beginning of a sentence), though in the anime adaptation, he makes other onomatopoeic sounds as well, a more notable one being a chant of "Herahera" (a Japanese onomatopoeia which means "acting foolishly" or "frivolous") .

Though he was relatively weak and timid as a child, he was able to take on Turkey single-handedly at one point.

## 2P Side

**Main Article: 2P North Italy (Luciano Vargas)**

## Trivia

* The birthdate given in his profile, **March 17th**, corresponds with the date of the formation of the "Kingdom Of Italy" (*Regno d'Italia*) in 1861. As Italy is shown in the strips to have existed for centuries before, it is likely that the brothers use the date of the Italian Unification to celebrate their birthdays with, as a unified Italy. The formation date of the Italian Republic (*Repubblica Italiana*) is actually **June 2nd**. South Italy is confirmed to be the elder of the two; despite this, some fans continue to mistake them for twins due to having similar hairstyles.
* Though Italy was represented with the flag for the **Kingdom Of Italy** in the original webcomic, the published manga and later media use the modern Italian flag.
* His full nation name, **Italy Veneziano** (or just "Veneziano") is derived from *Venezia*, the Italian name for **Venice**, a city in Northern Italy. In the strips, he is simply referred to by the others as **Italy**, with his brother only referring to him as **Veneziano**. The name **North Italy** is also used to differentiate him from his brother.In Italian*,* the word *Veneziano* has the meaning of "venetian", "native of Venice", but, unlike his brother's second forename, it is no existent male first name*. Veneziano* can also be seen as a sort of pun for the similar-sounding Japanese phrase "*Venezia no*", which would mean "of Venice".
* Though his name is derived after Venice, he only seems to represent the Republic itself in the strip where he fights the Ottoman troops. In footnotes to strips such as *The War of Austrian Succession*, it is shown that he has also been used to represent other northern areas of Italy such as Milan and Piedmont-Sardinia, before the unification of Italy.