The Italians

Penguin Books , London, 1991. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: 12mo Small. 390 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. The book is available and ready to ship. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; European History; Italy; ISBN: 0140145958. ISBN/EAN: 9780140145953. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9789. . 9780140145953