― Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
“First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. It's the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis.”
― Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
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Carrie
3/9/2014 01:34:03 pm
Beatiful pictures
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Shelley Jarvis
American mother of two who left the comfort and ease of life in the Northern California suburbs for an international experience Archives
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