They offer ways to understand a country in which appearances are often deceptive
The same claim could also be made for this pioneering venture in a field that has since come to be termed cultural psychology. It first appeared in 1964 and some of its references and examples have since been outdated by the changes that have taken place in Italian life. But Luigi Barzini set out to capture the essence of a supposedly unchangingand for the most part he drew on history and language to make his points. Many are as telling now as ever.
deals with the upbringing of his three children. It has less of the wry humour that made his first work of non-fiction, “Italian Neighbours”, such a success. But it is a more rigorous, and enlightening attempt to isolate the factors—the childhood events and omissions, the parental authorisations and refusals—that go into shaping the outlook of an Italian. Like all of Mr Parks’s skilfully crafted works, it is a delight to read.Da Capo Press; 192 pages; $15.99.
It took more than 30 years for Norman Lewis to dig out, edit, shape and publish the diary he kept while serving with British military intelligence in southern Italy after its “liberation” by the Allies. Yet “Naples ’44” has come to be regarded as the greatest of his many fine works. Humorous and harrowing by turns, it somehow contrives never to condescend to its subjects, the people of Naples—famished and humiliated yet possessed of astounding reserves of resilience, ingenuity and good humour.
Arguments could be made for other histories of post-war Italy, notably the late Paul Ginsborg’s splendid, two-volume series: “A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988” and “Italy and its Discontents. 1980-2001”. But they are unapologetically scholarly works, and though John Foot, the professor of modern Italian history at the University of Bristol, is no intellectual slouch, his account is one that non-academic readers will find easier to digest.
At last—you might think—an American author, albeit the son of an Italian journalist. It is remarkable that so few good books about Italy have come from the country whose inhabitants love it more than any other. Alexander Stille, who has also written books on Italy’s fascist dictatorship and the Mafia, provides an exception to the rule in this perceptive and illuminating study of Italy’s most successful post-war politician.
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