The Italians
Subtitle: a full-length portrait featuring their manners and morals
By: Luigi Barzini ; [maps drawn by Joan Emerson].
Contributors: Emerson, Joan.
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: National characteristics, Italian.; Italy -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1964.

"A Touchstone Book."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Peaceful invasion; title: Eternal pilgrimage; title: Fatal charm of Italy; title: Importance of spectacle; title: Illusion and Cagliostro; title: Other face of the coin; title: Coladi rienzo or the obsession of antiquity; title: Mussolini or the limitations of showmanship; title: Realism and Guicciardini; title: Pursuit of life; title: Power of the family; title: How to succeed; title: Problema del mezzogiorno; title: Sicily and the mafia; title: Fornovo and after; title: Perennial Baroque.