La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Some of his countrymen were displeased by Severgnini's depiction of Italy as "a sort of unusual purgatory, full of proud and curious lost souls," but most American readers will welcome his La Bella Figura as a smile-inducing corrective to "Tuscany of the mind" utopias. Few other explorations into...
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Some of his countrymen were displeased by Severgnini's depiction of Italy as "a sort of unusual purgatory, full of proud and curious lost souls," but most American readers will welcome his La Bella Figura as a smile-inducing corrective to "Tuscany of the mind" utopias. Few other explorations into the ever-perplexing Italian psyche are this enlightening or this entertaining.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780767914406 (0767914406)
ASIN: 767914406
Publish date: June 12th 2007
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 217
Edition language: English
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