The Italians Author:Luigi Barzini A study into the Italian national character discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. "The two Italies" - the one that created and nurtured greats like Dante, da Vinci and the other, feeble and prone to catastrophe, backward in political action and thought.
Great writer (he's a journalist who lived in the US), he knows how to turn a phrase. Full of sweeping generalizations about the Italians. He also wrote "The Europeans."