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Luzzi, Joseph.
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Luzzi, Joseph.
Luzzi, Joseph -- Family.
Regionalism -- Italy, Southern.
Regionalism -- Italy, Northern.
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Italian Americans -- History.
Italianists -- Italy -- Biography.
Italy -- Civilization.
Italy -- History.
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Luzzi, Joseph.
Luzzi, Joseph.
Luzzi, Joseph -- Family.
Regionalism -- Italy, Southern.
Regionalism -- Italy, Northern.
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Italian Americans -- History.
Italianists -- Italy -- Biography.
Italy -- Civilization.
Italy -- History.
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My two Italies / Joseph Luzzi.
by
Luzzi, Joseph.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Call #:
945.092 L979m
Subjects
Luzzi, Joseph.
Luzzi, Joseph
--
Family.
Regionalism
--
Italy
, Southern.
Regionalism
--
Italy
, Northern.
Italian Americans
--
Ethnic identity.
Italian Americans
--
History.
Italianists
--
Italy
--
Biography
.
Italy
--
Civilization.
Italy
--
History.
ISBN:
9780374298692 (hc.)
0374298696 (hc.)
Description:
204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives to link his family's dramatic story to
Italy
's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's time as a military internee in Nazi Germany--where he had a love affair with a local Bavarian woman--to his adventures amid the Renaissance splendor of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal portrait of
Italy
that leaps past facile clichés about Mafia madness and Tuscan sun therapy. He delves instead into why Italian Americans have such a complicated relationship with the 'old country,' and how
Italy
produces some of the world's most astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. With topics ranging from the pervasive force of Dante's poetry to the meteoric rise of Silvio Berlusconi, Luzzi presents the Italians in all their glory and squalor, relating the problems that plague
Italy
today to the country's ancient roots. He shares how his 'two Italies'--the earthy southern Italian world of his immigrant childhood and the refined 'northern' Italian realm of his professional life--join and clash in unexpected ways that continue to enchant the many millions who are either connected to
Italy
by ancestry or bound to it by love."--From publisher.
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