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The Italians

By Luigi Barzini

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| Paperback | 9780684825007

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In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is startlingly frank as he examines "the two Italies": theContinue

In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is startlingly frank as he examines "the two Italies": the one that created and nurtured such luminaries as Dante Alighieri, St. Thomas of Aquino, and Leonardo da Vinci; the other, feeble and prone to catastrophe, backward in political action if not in thought, "invaded, ravaged, sacked, and humiliated in every century." Deeply ambivalent, Barzini approaches his task with a combination of love, hate, disillusion, and affectionate paternalism, resulting in a completely original, thoughtful, and probing picture of his countrymen.

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  • Italy: Italian Style

    We know that it is impossible to characterize a whole nation, and yet perhaps most people half-unconsciously possess an ideal image of their country as if it had special national characteristics. Frenchmen and Italians above all seem to take collecti ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • Italy as it was... and in some cases still is. A very pleasant book anyway, even for italians.

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  • This work provides a dynamic depiction of the Italian persona, juxtaposed in contemporary and historic contexts. It deliberately leaves some questions unanswered, which provokes the reader into thinking, mindfully, what fortifies the Italian identity.

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  • Paperback 384 Pages
  • Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0684825007
  • ISBN-13: 9780684825007
  • Publisher: Touchstone
  • Pub date: Jul 03, 1996
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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