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050	0	0	_aDG 451 _b.Se83 2006
240	1	0	_lEnglish.
100	1		_aSevergnini, Beppe. _931463
240	1	0	_aTesta degli italiani.
245	1	3	_aLa bella figura : _ba field guide to the Italian mind _cBeppe Severgnini ; translated by Giles Watson.
260			_aNew York : _bBroadway Books, _cc2006.
264			_aNew York : _bBroadway Books, _cc2006.
300			_axiv, 217 pages ; _c22 cm
505	0		_aDay 1: Malpensa -> Milan: The airport, where we discover that Italians prefer exceptions to rules -- The highway, or the psychopathology of the stoplight -- The hotel, where singular people are not content with a double room -- Day 2 & 3: Milan: The restaurant, one way of sitting in judgment -- The store, the field of lost battles -- The nightspot, where foxes turn into peacocks -- The condominium, a vertical space for oblique obsessions -- The eat-in kitchen, the nerve center of domestic counterespionage -- The bedroom, the bathroom, and how hard it is to find space of your own -- Day 4: -> Tuscany: The train, where many talk, few listen, and everyone understands -- The museum, beautiful women on the walls -- Television, where the semi-undressed signorina acquires a cloak of significance -- Day 5: Tuscany: The countryside, where we show that Italians are the world's leading manufacturers of emotions -- The Italian piazza, a tool with more cutting edges than a Swiss-army knife -- The window, framing fantasies that are sometimes cut short by a shutter -- Day 6: Rome: The bank, a confrontation of confidence and cold feet -- The office, the opera house of orderly anarchy -- The shopping mall, a taste of America delivered to your door -- Day 7: Naples: The sidewalk, or on collective individualism -- The automobile, and fumbling on the fold-down seats -- The travel agency, where the nation flexes its flippancy and pampers its patriotism -- Day 8: Sardinia: The waterfront, the convoluted charm of a liquid frontier -- The beach, a bare outline -- The garden, seclusion in bloom -- Day 9: Crema: The barber, the newsstand, and the town as a lifebelt -- The monument. And yet it moves -- School, the workshop where shared memories are made -- Day 10: Crema -> Malpensa, via San Siro: The church, where we will ruminate on the moral menu -- The stadium, notes on social gastroenterology -- The horizon. In other words, give us back Columbus -- Epilogue: A letter from America.
520			_aAn offbeat odyssey into the heart of Italy and the Italian people captures the colorful character of the nation in a ten-day journey to thirty destinations that reveal Italy's best, worst, and most authentic aspects.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, Italian. _931464
651		0	_aItaly _xDescription and travel. _931465
651		0	_aItaly _xSocial life and customs _y1945- _931466
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005058243-b.html
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