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The party is at somebody's house, and it starts late
Italian parties tend to happen in homes rather than in booked venues, and the timing runs late even by Italian standards: guests arrive around ten, and three in the morning is a normal finish. Bringing something is expected — wine, a dolce from a pasticceria, or something to eat — and arriving empty-handed is noticed. If it is a birthday, remember the inversion from Lesson 22: the person celebrating pays, or hosts, or brings the cake to the office. Two habits that catch visitors out. The greeting round is compulsory and individual: you greet everybody present when you arrive and everybody again when you leave, with two kisses for friends, and slipping away unnoticed is genuinely rude. And an onomastico, your name-day — the feast of the saint you are named after — is celebrated in many families alongside the birthday, which is why an Italian may receive auguri twice a year and why the calendar in an Italian kitchen prints a name against every date.