All things considered, it's essential to realize that there was a long hole of time between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and (for the absence of a superior date) the unification of Italy as a solitary country in 1861. In that time Italy was involved by the Ostrogothic Kingdom (initially a Germanic clan that moved south), at that point the Byzantine Empire/Eastern Roman Empire (who were generally ethnically and socially Greek) and afterward the Lombards (another clan from additional north in Europe, fairly like the Ostrogoths).
So what was seen as the first, exemplary "Roman" personality most ordinarily connected with the pinnacle of the late republic and early magnificent periods as well and really watered down, twisted, and in any case disposed of throughout the long term.