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Italians

Italians

Barzini, Luigi

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyItalian History

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0684825007
ISBN13: 9780684825007
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: Jul 3 1996
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
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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