Lombardia -

Andrea Boscardin

Mezzacapa: In Milan, when there is the fog you can’t see. 
Antonio Caponi: Wow…and who can see that? 
Mezzacapa: What?
Antonio Caponi: This fog, who can see that?
 Mezzacapa: Nobody.
 Antonio Caponi: I mean: if when there is the fog in Milan nobody can see anything, how can they know there is the fog?
(Totò, Peppino e… la malafemmina, 1956).
Totò is a very popular Italian actor from Naples. On this famous dialogue, taken from one of his movies, he uses a famous commonplace about Milan: the fog. By using it he actually shows how far the North and the South of Italy were – and sometimes still are to this day.