My Two Italies
āļ.āļ. 2014 · Macmillan + ORM
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âA funny and often moving family history that opens onto wider vistas that he knows and loves equally wellâthe Italian cultural and political landscape.â âRoss King, New York Timesâbestselling author
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The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives to link his familyâs dramatic story to Italyâs north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family.
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From his Calabrian fatherâs time as a military internee in Nazi Germanyâwhere he had a love affair with a local Bavarian womanâto his adventures amid the Renaissance splendor of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal portrait of Italy that leaps past facile clichÃĐs about Mafia madness and Tuscan sun therapy. He delves instead into why Italian Americans have such a complicated relationship with the âold country,â and how Italy produces some of the worldâs most astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society.
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With topics ranging from the pervasive force of Danteâs 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 countryâs ancient roots. He shares how his âtwo Italiesââthe earthy southern Italian world of his immigrant childhood and the refined ânorthernâ Italian realm of his professional lifeâjoin 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.
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âIn his elegant, thoughtful new memoir . . . Luzzi effectively covers lots of ground on Italian identity as a whole.â âMark Rotella, NPR
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The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives to link his familyâs dramatic story to Italyâs north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family.
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From his Calabrian fatherâs time as a military internee in Nazi Germanyâwhere he had a love affair with a local Bavarian womanâto his adventures amid the Renaissance splendor of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal portrait of Italy that leaps past facile clichÃĐs about Mafia madness and Tuscan sun therapy. He delves instead into why Italian Americans have such a complicated relationship with the âold country,â and how Italy produces some of the worldâs most astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society.
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With topics ranging from the pervasive force of Danteâs 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 countryâs ancient roots. He shares how his âtwo Italiesââthe earthy southern Italian world of his immigrant childhood and the refined ânorthernâ Italian realm of his professional lifeâjoin 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.
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âIn his elegant, thoughtful new memoir . . . Luzzi effectively covers lots of ground on Italian identity as a whole.â âMark Rotella, NPR
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Joseph Luzzi, the first American-born child in his Italian family, holds a doctorate from Yale and is a professor of Italian at Bard. He is the author of Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, which won the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film. An active critic, his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of the audio courses In Michelangelo's Shadow: The Mystery of Modern Italy, The Blessed Lens: A History of Italian Film, and The Art of Reading. His honors include an essay award from the Dante Society of America, a teaching prize from Yale, and a fellowship from the National Humanities Center. Luzzi lectures widely on Italy, literature, art, and film.
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