La bella figura: An insider's guide to Italian mind - Beppe Severgnini

Join Beppe Severgnini on this hilarious tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors – la bella figura – and uncovers the far more complex true self. So, alongside the historic cities and glorious countryside, there’ll be stops at the places where the Italians reveal themselves in all their authentic, maddening glory: the airport, the motorway and the bedroom...

Ten days, thirty places. From north to south, from food to politics, from saintliness to sexuality, Beppe will help you understand why Italy ‘can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred metres or ten minutes’.