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Why did Romanticism affect music in Italy more slowly than other countries?

 I really don't think that Romanticism affected music, more slowly, in Italy than in other countries. For example, the term "Romantic Opera" had found its meaning in the early romantic era, between 1800-1850 and "affected" Paris and Northern Italy. The vocal lines, which were italianate, and the orchestral skills, which were french combined happily, Bellini and Donizetti being very popular artist at that time.

Niccolo Paganini, the violin virtuoso, became known , also in the early Romantic period.

Maybe it just seems that way since there were so many artists of other genres who are focused on during this time?  Painters, sculptors, architects, and literary artists seem to be front and center...Michelangelo and Da Vinci being in the bullseye!