It's high season for jealousy. Not that spring, winter or fall are exactly dead times for that gnawing dread that a spouse or lover is cheating. But Italian summers are particularly vulnerable times for the jealous-prone. Many wives spend a month or two away at the beach with the kids while husbands keep working back in the city. Private detective agencies slip fliers under windshield wipers of parked cars.
Magazines analyze the emotion.
In one installment, the bait was Cinzia, blond curls cascading down her neck and a breeze exposing tanned leg under her wrap micro-skirt as she waited at a beachside nightclub near Rome. Cinzia invited Domenico, a long-haired man in his 20s, skinny dipping. Domenico took off his jacket, but when he started pulling his shirt out of his pants, the studio intervened to stop the action. Fighting back tears as she spied from the studio, Domenico's girlfriend Antonella sounded like she regretted the whole business. You think he or she is faithful, but you also fear he or she is not faithful.