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A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in My Two Italies to link his familys dramatic story to Italys north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian fathers time as a military internee in Nazi Germany where he had a love affair with a local Bavarian woman to his adventures amid the Renaissance splendor of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal portrait of Italy that leaps past facile cliches about Mafia madness and Tuscan sun therapy. He delves instead into why Italian Americans have such a complicated relationship with the old country, and how Italy produces some of the worlds most astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. With topics ranging from the pervasive force of Dantes poetry to the meteoric rise of Silvio Berlusconi, Luzzi presents the Italians in all their glory and squalor, relating the problems that plague Italy today to the countrys ancient roots. He shares how his two Italies the earthy southern Italian world of his immigrant childhood and the refined northern Italian realm of his professional life join and clash in unexpected ways that continue to enchant the many millions who are either connected to Italy by ancestry or bound to it by love.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Farrar Straus And Giroux
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