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    Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors—la bella figura—and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true selfYou won’t need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts and minds of Beppe Severgnini’s fellow Italians. In fact, Beppe would prefer if you left behind the baggage ... Read more

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  • A Private Affair

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    Italian Lessons

    Fifty Things We Know About Life Now

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 43 min

    One-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way—“with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini’s book not only transports us to Italy but deep into the Italian mind and spirit" (Stanley Tucci, host of Searching for Italy).Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians?Italy often arouses in Americans a ... Read more

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  • Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement

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    In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections of February 2013, despite still largely being considered a small protest movement, the party ... Read more

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  • Poetics, Ideology, Dissent

    Beppe Fenoglio and Translation

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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