With the Italian Heritage Month, it’s time to take a closer look at our “Cultural DNA”

Oct 12, 2022 386

BY: Simone Schiavinato

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.’ 

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SOURCE: https://italoamericano.org

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