Italians [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Barzini, Luigi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684825007 ISBN 13: 9780684825007

Verlag: Touchstone, 1996

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Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. 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 p

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The New Yorker Searching into every corner of Italian life and scrutinizing every clich concerning it, from the charm of the people (an illusion, he maintains) to the consolations of la dolce vita (another one), Mr. Barzini has written an invaluable and astringent guidebook to his country.

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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": 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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Touchstone
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684825007
• ISBN 13: 9780684825007
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384