La Bella Figura
A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
$40.06
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2008
Summary
First of all, let’s get one thing straight. Your Italy and out Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, white wine and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It’s alluring but complicated. In Italia you can go round and round in circles for years. Which, of course, is great fun.
Beppe Severgnini was The Economist’s Italian correspondent for ten years. A huge Anglophile as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340936030 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340936037 |
| Author: | Beppe Severgnini |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 170mm x 19mm |
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A keen observer of human nature, he watches his compatriots with amused insight… Laugh-out-loud funny. - International Herald and Tribune
A luscious disquisition on the Italian national character - The Washington PostAbout The Author
Beppe Severgnini
Beppe Severgnini is a columnist for Italy’s largest-circulation daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera and covered Italy for The Economist from 1993 to 2003. He is also the author of the international bestseller Ciao, America! Beppe lived in London for more than fifteen years and is a self-confessed Anglophile. He now lives with his family in Crema on the outskirts of Milan.
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