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This is CBS I Am The World. I'm John Batch. I'm speaking with the journalist, the columnist

Bepi Sevenini, whose new book Italian lessons takes us through the plague, the epidemic,

the pandemic, the overwhelming crisis of 2020. But Italy is very, very ancient compared

to the United States. And it is casual to go back several hundred years just reflecting

upon a building you're standing in front of. We now go to the fact that the Sivirneenis

come from the land. As many people do in Italy after the Roman Empire was seated and stopped

building roads. They come from the land so much that a Bippie's wife notices he only likes

paintings with green in it. Why is that, Bepi?

I don't know. I find green comforting and I bought green paintings in Russia and the United

States. I'm not an art expert. I like the color green in painting. I realize that 90% of

my paintings are green. I think it's something in the idea in a probably. We found out in

the Paris Church of this place called Lofan Angonia Cramer that the Sivirneenis were

farmers already in the early 16th century, like 1520. Everyone is a farmer and every generation

and every generation, one of us is allowed to do other things like me. I'm a writer and

a journalist, but my son is also a farmer and he also has opened the restaurant on the

River Lake, but he's also a farmer and takes care of the land. It's something I like it.

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