This is a very

This is CBSi in the world. I'm John Babs with Beppi Severini whose new book is Italian lessons

50 things we know about life now.

BP is a very prominent journalist and columnist in Italy.

He writes for the Courier of the Week of the Day, Sarah, of the the day of the moment.

But he's assembled 50 lessons during the pandemic

that Italy survived after a brutal entrance into it because it was the first city to my knowledge

reporting from New York that was very hard hit and not and lacked the resources of course there was no vaccine

but even the protocols had to be invented because it was so new here we are more than

two years into the third year and the recovery is underway.

However, the book is more than just the plunge into the depths and then the

climb out of the depths. It is also about what it means to be Italian.

And I always envy this because of course Beppi forgives me for being a Calvinist and a New Englander

and a very dry observer of nature.

Of course I come from a north-tempered zone, not the beauty of it Italian sunshine.

There are five Fs to follow.

This is English

efs, English words, efs.

And we're going to go through them

because they teach very quickly what it is to be Italian.

The first is family and feuds.

We'll do them together. How do they go together Beppe?

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