From Caesar to the Mafia
Subtitle: sketches of Italian life
By: Luigi Barzini.
Publisher: Library Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Italy -- Civilization.; Italy -- Social life and customs.
First sentence: The idea that there was something contradictory, inexplicable, and elusive about Gaius Julius Caesar's behavior on the last morning of his life haunts us still as it haunted his contemporaries.
Table of contents: label: Persons
pagenum: 3
title: Julius Caesar; label: Persons
pagenum: 30
title: Casanova; label: Persons
pagenum: 38
title: Cavour, or the Foreigner as National Hero; label: Persons
pagenum: 48
title: Curzio Malaparte; label: Persons
pagenum: 61
title: The Sicilians; label: Persons
pagenum: 81
title: The Aristocrats; label: Persons
pagenum: 115
title: Gramsci, a Founding Father; label: Persons
pagenum: 139
title: A Glimpse of Mussolini; label: Persons
pagenum: 144
title: The Italian Mistress; label: Places and Happenings
pagenum: 157
title: On the Isle of Capri; label: Places and Happenings
pagenum: 172
title: On the Death of a Bandit; label: Places and Happenings
pagenum: 177
title: A King's Last Night; label: Events and Happenings
pagenum: 188
title: Milan, a Native's Return; label: Evensts and Happenings
pagenum: 201
title: The Quest for Lampedusa; label: Events and Happenings
pagenum: 222
title: A Personal Affair; label: Problems
pagenum: 239
title: A Fine Italian Hand; label: Problems
pagenum: 252
title: Grand Hotel Montecitorio; label: Problems
pagenum: 259
title: It's Different in the South; label: Problems
pagenum: 273
title: The Communists, and the Locomotive of History; label: Problems
pagenum: 297
title: The Anatomy of Expertise; label: Problems
pagenum: 322
title: The Mafia