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My Two Italies (Paperback)
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My Two Italies (Paperback)
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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 family's dramatic story to Italy's
north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its
passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's 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 splendour 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 world's most
astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political
fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. With topics ranging
from the pervasive force of Dante's 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
country's 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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