Italy is not a «nation of nations», as Martin S. Lipset would define the United States. It is a more contradictory and baffling social reality: a very ancient society coupled with a most recent political unity. What keeps Italians together is not only the family, as some sociologists would have it. Rather, a «gusto» for conviviality and the «Mediterranean Festa».

Franco Ferrarotti
THE ITALIAN PARADOX
Edizioni Solfanelli
[ISBN-978-88-3305-592-3]
Pagg. 52 - € 8,00