La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World

La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World
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A jubilant celebration of Italyâ€™s outsize impact on culture, from literature to art, music to movies, that â€œmasterfully examines the multitude of reasons why so many people fall in love with Italy and the Italian lifestyleâ€ (Forbes)

Can you imagineÂ painting without Leonardo, opera without Verdi, fashion without Armani, food without the signature tastes of pasta, gelato, and pizza.?The first universities, first banks, first public libraries? All Italian.

New York TimesÂ bestselling authorÂ Dianne Hales attributes these landmark achievements toÂ la passione italiana, a primal force that stems from an insatiable hunger to discover and create; to love and live with every fiber of one's being. This fierce drive, millennia in the making, blazes to life in the Sistine Chapel, surges through a Puccini aria, deepens a vintage Brunello, and rumbles in a gleaming Ferrari engine.

Our ideal tour guide, Hales sweeps readers along on her adventurous quest for the secrets ofÂ la passione. She swims in the playgrounds of mythic gods, shadows artisanal makers of chocolate and cheese, joins in Sicilyâ€™s Holy Week traditions, celebrates a neighborhood Carnevale in Venice, and explores pagan temples, vineyards, silk mills, movie sets, crafts studios, and fashion salons. She introduces us, through sumptuous prose, to unforgettable Italians, historical and contemporary, all brimming with the greatest of Italian passionsâ€”for life itself.

A lyrical portrait of a spirit as well as a nation, La PassioneÂ appeals to the Italian in all our souls, inspiring us to be as daring as Italyâ€™s gladiators, as eloquent as its poets, as alluring as its beauties, and as irresistible as its lovers.

Praise for La Passione

â€œ[An] effervescent love letter to all things Italian.â€â€”Newsday

â€œIn this sweeping account ofÂ laÂ passione italianaÂ from ancient to modern times, Dianne Hales shows once again why she is one the worldâ€™s foremost guides to the riches of Italian culture. Every page resonates with the authorâ€™s love for Italy and her joy in sharing its remarkable discoveries and exquisite pleasures with her readers.â€ â€”Joseph Luzzi, author ofÂ My Two ItaliesÂ andÂ In a Dark Wood

â€œHales takes us on an enriching and delightful journey, filled with fascinating characters, scintillating sensual details, and an authentic connection to the ever-inspiring Italian heart and soul that has given the world boundless pleasures.â€ â€”Susan Van Allen, author ofÂ 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown Archetype
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780451499165
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-04-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780451499165

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown Archetype
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780451499165
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-04-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780451499165

La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World

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