Cover art for Secrets of Italy
Published
Rizzoli, June 2014
ISBN
9780847842742
Format
Hardcover, 220 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.9cm

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An instant bestseller in Italy, Corrado Augias's latest work sets out to rediscover the story - different from the history - of this country. Beginning with how Italy is seen from the outside and from the inside, he weaves a geo-historical narrative, passing through principal cities and rereading the classics and the biographies of the people that have, for better or worse, made Italians who they are.

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