>>17792769This is obviously talking about the legal concept
We are not descended from Romans. In fact lot of Italians today aren't, since the Roman Empire loved to bring slaves from all over including North Africa, and after the Empire fell, all the raids and conquest from MENA browns, plus European ethnicities Franks, Goths, Lombards, etc., all leaving behind their peoples and genetics.
This is actually why there today is a intelligence difference dividing Italy, with the more European genetics having North and the more MENA genetics having South. Even the "Italian" mafia is not actually Roman/Italian, but Semitic, being from Sicily that has most foreign DNA in all of modern united Italy.