
The Italians
by Luigi Barzini · first published 1991
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…housemate's copy. There are sentences that you will want to reread to see how he does it. And in the art of payback, Yeats on George Moore makes Hemingway on Fitzgerald/Ford/Stein/etc look amateurish. _The Italians_ by Luigi Barzini.
on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?” ↗Have a look sometime at Luigi Barzini's book The Italians. The word "nepotism" does not derive from Chinese.
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