The secrets of Italy
Subtitle: people, places, and hidden histories
By: Corrado Augias ; translated from the Italian by Alta L. Price
Contributors: Price, Alta L., translator
Publisher: Rizzoli Ex Libris
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780847842742
Subjects: Miscellanea; History; Description and travel; Social life and customs
Work titles: Segreti d'Italia
Description: Taking readers on a Grand Tour through Italy's cities, history and literature in search of the true character of this contradictory nation, a leading cultural authority, weaving a geo-historical narrative, sets out to rediscover the story of this country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index.

Translation of: I segreti d'Italia.
Table of contents: title: Italians as seen from the outside; title: Italians as seen from the inside; title: -Leopardi in Rome; title: Palermo, on the border between two worlds; title: The discovery of the south; title: Paradise and its devils; title: He lingered a little, then left the world; title: The good duchess; title: Milan, both good and bad; title: Last judgments; title: The invention of the ghetto.