Beppe Severgnini: 5 books

Een ongewone gids Het laatste onverkende gedeelte van Italië is de Italiaan. De tocht is zeer de moeite waard, maar niet zonder gevaren, en sommige reizigers aarzelen om eraan te beginnen. Niet-Italianen worden weerhouden door luiheid en de angst om het grootse mentale Toscane te vernietigen, dat...

In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest — one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C. When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they...

Un viaggio ironico, sentimentale e istruttivo: dalla scuola di Montanelli al Corriere della Sera, dal primo articolo per La Provincia di Cremona al New York Times, dai libri alla radio, da Twitter al teatro (entrambi utili, il secondo più moderno). In Italia e in Europa, in America e in Australia,...

Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors—la bella figura—and highlights its maddening, paradoxical true self   You won’t need luggage for this hypothetical and hilarious trip into the hearts...

What is it in the operatic Italian psyche that allows-indeed, forgives, even applauds-Italy’s premier for conducting a lifestyle as decadent as a Fellini extravaganza, while organizing an ongoing string of questionable behaviors and politically incorrect gaffes not seen since the days of Nero? All...