AS ITALY RECOVERED FROM THE PANDEMIC: 4/4: Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know About Life Now by Beppe Severgnini (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians?
Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and incredible allure. From the Italians' love of poetry to an innate desire to socialize to the regional differences between the north and the south, BeppeSevergnini, who has dedicated his career to the meticulous observation of his compatriots, embarks on an enthralling quest to identify a core Italian identity and explore how that identity has evolved since the global pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is life |
| 0:05.0 | CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Pepi Civonini, his new book Italian |
| 0:10.0 | lessons. |
| 0:11.0 | 50 things we know about life now. |
| 0:12.8 | This is life during the pandemic and now we emerge under the pandemic, but there were concerns |
| 0:17.6 | before of Italy and their concerns afterwards. |
| 0:20.3 | However, Beppi worries about Rome. One of the things, one of his lessons is, does Rome worry about Rome? |
| 0:27.0 | Beppy, I met during the pandemic the news that there were wild boars wandering in the city of Rome. |
| 0:34.0 | They probably wander in many other cities, but coming down the roadway and feeding on the |
| 0:39.5 | trash in the streets because people were not there. |
| 0:42.0 | Are the wild boars gone now? Have they left? |
| 0:45.0 | No, of course not. You know, the Romans with invaders, barbarians, the Spanish, the Americans the |
| 0:53.0 | the Germans the German the French the popes |
| 0:56.0 | the Romans can cope with everyone and everything so why not with the Boers? They become part of the family. |
| 1:04.0 | You worry though about Rome. Why is that? What is different in Rome that is not true? |
| 1:10.0 | I know Milan works extremely well. Why doesn't Rome work so well? |
| 1:14.8 | Because in Milan and I work there and it's very close to Kremen and I know Milan better. |
| 1:21.0 | Because Milan is in there, it's got an extreme self-confidence. |
| 1:25.8 | In Rome, it's a, Romans are brilliant, they are talented, |
| 1:31.4 | but they, they are high, the lack of self-confidence with cynicism you know you can feel that you know the |
| 1:39.2 | fact that whatever they see it all who cares I know don't worry and it's not them and and that's |
| 1:48.7 | sort of hides a lack of self-confidence and if you want to get out of it because in Rome public |
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