by Catherine Accardi

What does one talk about when speaking with a legend? How often does one have the opportunity to speak with an icon of San Francisco's North Beach and beyond? And, in Italian, which he likes to call "la bella lingua". He enjoys being called Lorenzo.

I recently spoke with Lawrence Ferlinghetti about North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy, Italian language and culture, travel to Italy and discovering one's roots. All those wonderful topics one would hope to chat about while sitting across from a literary legend.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano