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La Bella Figura (Paperback)
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La Bella Figura (Paperback)
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List price R312
Loot Price R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
You Save R29 (9%)
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'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 well as an astute observer of his countrymen,
he's the perfect companion for this hilarious tour of modern Italy
that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors -
la bella figura - and uncovers the far more complex, paradoxical
true self. Alongside the historic cities and glorious countryside,
there'll be stops at the places where the Italians reveal
themselves in all their authentic, maddening glory: the airport,
the motorway and the living room. Ten days, thirty places. From
north to south, from food to politics, from saintliness to
sexuality. This witty and beguiling examination will help you
understand why Italy, as Beppe says, 'can have you fuming and then
purring in the space of a hundred metres or ten minutes.'
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