{"product_id":"my-two-italies-a-personal-and-cultural-history-paperback","title":"My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Luzzi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives in \u003ci\u003eMy Two Italies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Luzzi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received an essay award from the Dante Society of America, a teaching prize from Yale College, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first American-born child in his Italian family, he earned his doctorate from Yale University and is a professor at Bard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336501944422,"sku":"9780374535391","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VHlqYWNxZndqdkJRY05qSFVzd1k3dz09.webp?v=1774608571","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/my-two-italies-a-personal-and-cultural-history-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}