Flamberge said:
modern italians are not descendants of romans, sorry bud.
"Modern Italians mostly descend from the ancient peoples of Italy, including Indo-European speakers (Romans and other Latins, Falisci, Picentes, Umbrians, Samnites, Oscans, Sicels and Adriatic Veneti, as well as Magno-Greeks, Cisalpine Gauls and Illyric Iapygians) and pre-Indo-European speakers (Etruscans, Ligures, Rhaetians Camunni, Sicani, Nuragic peoples, as well as settlers from Phoenicia and Carthage). " - daddy Wikipedia
Cough.. Romans weren't just one folk of people, they were an empire that lead to (via a lot of breeding) modern day Italians.