The Truth about Italy
It’s Wonderful, but Why?
3 min readFeb 17, 2017
People love reading about Italy. There is a whole mythology around the Bel Paese. It is the land of wine, and pasta, and mandolins; of Gregory Peck driving Audrey Hepburn around Rome on a scooter.
It’s tempting for a writer to skim such impressions off the surface, like the foam on a cappucchino. We have Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun as evidence. I…
