Every year, right around 7,000 college age foreign students join Florence’s population.

The majority of the 7,000 students are American.

80% of the 7,000 foreign students are female.

You may draw your own conclusions from these facts, but this is obviously happy hunting ground for young Italian men who are looking for a foreign girlfriend.  One imagines that most of these American coeds are from middle class to upper middle class families, and so a number of Italian men are able to find wealthy young American wives, if they don’t mind utltimately living abroad themselves.