PRACTICE ITALIAN
We are a people of artists, writers, poets, musicians, navigators, inventors, scientists, geniuses and even brigands, people who know how to get by and even at the expense of others .... no more than other peoples, in this case ... we are still the soft spot of Europe, as of the Rome-Berlin AXIS and the landing of the Allies in Sicily to free the south from Nazifascism was a new Spedizione dei Mille…. Italy was again broken in two by allied liberation in the south and partisan wars and massacres in the center north!
We are everything and the opposite of everything, we know, we can be nuns and prostitutes at the same time and in the same place, literally and metaphorically, but we know it, we have a sense of guilt or pride, we are reflective and certainly more self-harming than aggressive of many other peoples, even when we colonized, even when we applied racial laws! We are a people that over the centuries has mixed with too many other peoples to be well identified: from the Italic peoples, to the Celts, the Phoenicians and the colonizing Greeks, to the conquering Romans, to the Germans who have plundered and dominated us, (Vandals, Lombards, Franks, Normans, Swabians), from the Arabs, to the French, from the Spaniards to the Austrians ... we call ourselves Italians for literature!
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I’M ITALIAN - SUMMER - 2022
