JavaScript appears to be disabled on your browser. To shop on Spark Book Fairs please enable JavaScript or upgrade to a JavaScript capable browser.
Try AgainLearn More
Spark Book Fairs
The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals

The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals

List price: $22.00

Available: 1

Quantity:
Description
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.
Info

ISBN: 9780684825007

Published Date: January 1, 1996

Publisher: Touchstone Books

Language: English

Page Count: 352

Size: 8.37" l x 5.46" w x 1.08" h

Subject

Sociology