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Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.

It made me think a snooty Englishman interpreted it for Beppe. BTW I'm married to an Englishman but he's not snooty at all! Sep 17, Gwen rated it it was ok Recommended to Gwen by: My biggest complaint with this book is the title-- An Italian Discovers Georgetown might be better, as the book very rarely ventures outside that neighborhood and the bizarre idiosyncrasies of Washingtonian life. Although when it does, the author's experience of non-elite American life is fascinating, if sobering.

Also, his knowledge of Washingtonian life outside the Georgetown bubble was lacking; a previous reader of my library copy assiduously crossed out every reference to "North Virginia," My biggest complaint with this book is the title-- An Italian Discovers Georgetown might be better, as the book very rarely ventures outside that neighborhood and the bizarre idiosyncrasies of Washingtonian life. Also, his knowledge of Washingtonian life outside the Georgetown bubble was lacking; a previous reader of my library copy assiduously crossed out every reference to "North Virginia," replacing that with " Northern Virginia".

I resisted the urge to make these edits myself, though. Overall, though, this is an oft-humorous glimpse of an outsider's perspective of America, albeit one that is highly localized and dated. Not at all the author's fault, but the book clearly shows its s origins. For a more modern version of this book, I recommend watching "Stephen Fry in America," where Fry travels throughout the entire country and remarks of his impressions, and reading the companion book, Stephen Fry in America.

I really liked this book. The comments he provides about his time in the U. The book is a classic example of someone from another culture entering a foreign country and providing keen insight into both his native and host cultures. The handyman sets him up with equipment that is not allowed and leans in and tells him: I found this in the travel section of my library.

In that regard I was mislead. It is not essentially a travel book. But it is an enjoyable one. The account of Severgnini's year-long stint in the U. Written in the s with a final chapter on what he found five years later on a return visit, the book is an observation on how America lives, I found this in the travel section of my library.

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Written in the s with a final chapter on what he found five years later on a return visit, the book is an observation on how America lives, its idiosyncrasies, its foibles, and to a great extent its excellence. I found nothing with which to disagree, and much with which to laughingly agree.

While it would have been nice to have read Severgnini on sights around the U. His command of English was extensive a number of new words for me, something I don't often encounter and his comparisons of the U. A quick read, if you're looking for an Italian's perspective on U. Dec 14, Valentino rated it really liked it.

Dovendo provare la lettura su ipad e kindle di qualcosa di leggero mi sono lanciato su questo testo, che sembra un classico. Un po' annoiato ho iniziato a gustarlo sul kindle, abbandonando l'ipad dopo pochissimo. E mi sono trovato ad andare al bar con il Kindle per leggerlo ancora. Ti aiuta a guardare dentro. Ti sembra di essere accanto a lui quando la sera, accanto al camino, ti racconto cosa gli e' successo quel mese.

Dall'innamoramento all'ins Dovendo provare la lettura su ipad e kindle di qualcosa di leggero mi sono lanciato su questo testo, che sembra un classico. Dall'innamoramento all'insofferenza alla nostalgia, ma sempre con Divertentissima ogni valutazione su internet e i computer nel , tutte previsioni sbagliate e piace forse per questo, perche' ti fa capire come era facile pensare in un modo quando il mondo andava in un'altra direzione.

Temo che lo rileggero' seduto su qualche sdraio, anche semplicemente per sentirne la compagnia. Un po' come quando inviti un vecchio amico al bar. Jan 17, Samantha rated it liked it. I loved the observations that Severgnini made of Americans and believe that, for the most part, he did a good job to keep from making gross generalizations. Although the audience is clearly Italians, I did my fair share of laughing at how incredibly normal some of the sketches were. The first is with the translation. I didn't read the Italian version, but Giles Wat I loved the observations that Severgnini made of Americans and believe that, for the most part, he did a good job to keep from making gross generalizations.

I didn't read the Italian version, but Giles Watson used some great "vocabulary" words I never heard before reading. Don't get me wrong, I love to learn new words, but the haughty diction didn't seem to go with the light content. Also, Severgnini gets lazy toward the end and then I don't think the final point he makes in the epilogue has much to do with the rest of the work.

But if you can get over that like I did, it's a fun read. Giuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini born December 26, is an Italian journalist, writer and columnist. Books by Beppe Severgnini. Trivia About Ciao, America!: No trivia or quizzes yet. Quotes from Ciao, America!: You don't like it because it's strong.

Sensible people found it to be disgraceful that the population should prefer Austrian to Italian laws , but they were not able to see that the real disgrace was that Italian laws might appear to be inferior to the Austrian ones. These inexpert legislators did not even want to know about the institutions that governed the new provinces , and believing that they had been rendered savage by a savage foreign government , treated them in the same manner as that in which the French believed they could treat conquered Algeria […].

In the context of Italian administrative unification, the annexation of Lombardy and the extension to it of the Piedmontese system of administration is of exemplary and paradigmatic value. Initially, a commission was created consisting of representatives of moderate Lombard liberalism, charged with the task of establishing the measures most appropriate for reconciling the particular Lombard administrative tradition with the Piedmontese system, 32 and a provisional system was designed for Lombardy, which was introduced in June After Lombardy, the Rattazzi Law, which maintained the Franco-Napoleonic administrative system basically unchanged, was also extended to the former states that were annexed between and A dynamic similar to the one that occurred at the time of the annexation of Lombardy also took place in on the annexation of Veneto, which was the first region to be included in the Kingdom following enactment of the administrative unification law.

As in Lombardy, there was widespread discontent in Veneto, and in this case too, a commission was appointed, presided by Cesare Correnti, who had previously been a member of the Giulini Commission — but no representatives from Veneto were included in it. It is a well - known fact that the capital error that led the Italian administration to such an unhappy result, which has been portrayed in every newspaper and by public opinion, was to suppress all the administrative laws and institutions that had functioned in the annexed States for so many years , and to introduce the Piedmontese administrative system everywhere.

In the opinion of the journalist, the mistake was to have believed that it would be possible to administer a large structure such as the new Italian state by applying tools that had been used to administer the small Piedmontese kingdom:. The cabinet governing Piedmont at the time of the annexations […] applied the laws of a small State to a grand Monarchy.

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The evidence escaped it , its eyes became tired in its attempt to see everything as it had seen things in Piedmont , and it became blind , and no longer saw anything. Let us therefore move slowly , very slowly , in demolishing its administrative system. Let us study it well , let us look wisely at how its machinery works , […] and thereafter let us apply various of its administrative rules in the other provinces. What is good must be taken wherever it can be found , and it should not be believed that the administration is entirely Austrian here. We have many Italian laws and regulations in force , and many norms that have been working excellently here for years were completely unknown in Austria.

Theories on the territorial division of the Italian peninsula had been proposed even before its political unification was completed. These proposals were closely associated with the various views on the form that the new state should assume — unitary, federal, or confederal —, and were initially put forward in order to identify an adequate and realistic response to the problems of achieving national unification. In particular, these theories were suggested by a number of geographers and politicians who were in some way protagonists of the national unification process, and whose attention was focused more closely on the morphological and geopolitical features of the peninsula.

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Of interest here are the observations of Carlo Frulli in on the geographical division of Italy, which have recently been brought to our attention again by Lucio Gambi. Frulli, who was from Bologna, was not at all interested in the political and jurisdictional divisions of the peninsula. Entirely different was the work of Cesare Correnti, in the early s and thereafter, to identify more homogeneous and solid regional areas. He was also acutely aware, and would become even more so thereafter, of the differences and dissimilarities that characterized the numerous states of the peninsula, also from a jurisdictional and administrative point of view:.

The administrative organization of the peninsula is highly irregular , exactly like the political one. Altogether , the thirteen states and semi-states into which Italy is divided comprise provinces , districts , and 10 , municipalities. These provinces , districts , and municipalities have nothing like the same economic and political value, however.

The fifteen provinces of the Bourbon lands on this side of the River Faro have an average population of , each , and therefore can be compared with the Piedmontese divisions and the French departments. The seven provinces of Sicily are somewhat less populous , and above all smaller.

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Both the first and the second are , however , subdivided into 77 districts with an average population of over , , which cannot be compared in any way with the small districts into which Lombardy is divided , the average population of which does not exceed 22 , The Neapolitan districts , on the other hand , can be equated with the 50 provinces of Sardinia , because both have , inhabitants each. The 14 divisions of the Sardinian States , however , match the Neapolitan provinces and the French departments.

In no part of Italy does a district have so productive a character as those of Lombardy and Venice: As regards municipalities, there is a very large difference between our small ones , which have an average population of a little over 1 , , and those in southern Italy , whose population is almost 3 times larger. If we consider Sicily alone , where the agrarian system of Imperial Rome remains in force , we only find villages , which is four times fewer than in the larger territory of Lombardy.

Because the economic and administrative system varies so greatly from town to town , the similarity of names leads to misunderstanding more than anything else. As noted previously, this moment in time was not only foundational as regards the administrative fabric of the nascent unitary state, but was also linked to the subsequent creation of the statistical divisions on the basis of which the first census of the population of the Kingdom was carried out. Many high-ranking statisticians and geographers occupied themselves with territorial studies in Italy in the first half of the 19th century.

For Correnti and Maestri,. There would be as many administrative topographies as there are ministries , and even this would not be enough , because , for example , the Ministry of Finance has divided the Kingdom into five regions for public debt , into six for legal consultations on disputes , into fourteen for land registries , into eighteen for the Treasury Offices , into twenty - seven for the Offices of Indirect Taxation , and into fifty for the administration of state - owned land. In addition , there are various sub - departments of these regional divisions that are also diverse and overlap in various ways.

It is helpful to consider the reasoning he set forth:. It was difficult for us to conduct comparisons between one province and another without a framework through which the natural relationships among the various provinces due to their proximity , similarities in physical make - up , similar economic complexity , or common civil traditions could be coordinated. We were therefore induced to group provinces together primarily on the basis of their topographical cohesion , which inevitably determines economic correlation and correspondence , and secondly on that of the moral and civil traditions of the various parts of Italy.

Those who consider our idea closely will be persuaded , however , that our concept is based neither on the painful vestiges of a past that we hope is now irrevocably gone , nor on the now rejected preconceptions of administrative federalism. As we have already stated , our Compartments are topographical , or , in a word , statistical; they merely reproduce territorial divisions based on the nature of the land and the laws of economic cohabitation , divisions that since ancient times and in the mediaeval era did not correspond to political borders , nor to the even more changeable administrative districts , but which had a very different , more solid , foundation in the laws of distance , movement , and labour.

To my mind, this question, which has been posed anew in recent times, merits more careful evaluation and a more in-depth review of the history of administration and administrative geography. To realize this division , is it necessary to ignore every other moral unit other than that created by a Province , as the law in force provides? Or should we acknowledge that the Provinces in Italy are grouped together naturally and historically into other larger centres that have had , and still have , a reason to exist in the body of Italy?

The political division that we must establish should be the fruit of neither an abstract concept nor an arbitrary operation. It must represent the actual subdivisions that exist under natural and historical conditions; those centres of moral strength that might revolt if they were to be oppressed by the pedantry of the system , but which , if legitimately satisfied , might contribute admirably to the strength and splendour of the Nation.

Despite the long dispute between minister Minghetti and the commission, the final rejection of the regional projects put an end to any notion of an expanded district to which coordination of local administration could be entrusted, and confirmed the unexpected centrality of the provinces as an intermediate body between municipalities and the state.

Similarly, the reproposal of the Piedmontese municipal and provincial law of 23 October merely increased criticisms of the administrative structure, which clearly derived from the French system, and the territorial partitioning imposed on the unified state. Everything that was done was done wrongly , haphazardly , with no conceptual design , or was no more than an ill - advised , pusillanimous transplant of systems and the Piedmontese routines , besmeared with foreign forgeries , in every part of Italy.

These were by no means isolated criticisms in the debate on the political and administrative system of the new unified state, nor were they original; they were, however, distinctive insofar as they analytically discredited the choices made on the administrative subdivision of the national territory, comparing them with the format of French departments, stigmatizing the confusion that had been created, and suggesting drastic simplification and rationalization.

As mentioned before, the cause of the controversy was the Rattazzi Law. Issued pursuant to the plenary powers granted to the sovereign for the war against Austria on 25 April , it was not very different from the similar Sardinian law dating from , except for the names of the territorial divisions: Although Italian administrative historiography takes account of the various interpretations of the centralization of the new unified state, 75 it has for some time revealed the distance between normative dictates and political and administrative practices, the contradiction between liberal ideological motivations and the minute provisions for control and protection to which local power was subjected.

These questions were very much in the minds of those who grappled with issues of a predominantly technical-administrative, geographical and statistical nature at the time, as well as of the multitude of politicians who posed — with a greater level of awareness — the problem of the territorial division of the new unified state and made an undeniably powerful commitment to its efficient configuration. These reflections are all the more interesting if we consider that most of them had already been formulated before unification was achieved.

At a supra-municipal level, too, the administrative system — that is, the provincial structure — could not fail to register the same enormous variety of situations, a consequence of the decisions and circumstances that had driven the process of formation of the unified state and the plan for administrative division. On the subject of the provincial network, however, Minghetti also specified areas in which it was believed more fundamental modifications were needed: It is not possible here to provide a detailed analysis of the most uncertain and confused territorial areas of the Italian administrative network, to which Minghetti did not fail to refer in his project.

In order to propose some concluding thoughts, however, it will be appropriate to itemize the structural problems that were central to the debate on territorial division at the dawn of the Kingdom of Italy. The option for small provinces was mainly supported by the promoters of administrative centralization, while it was more often the supporters of decentralization who were in favour of a larger intermediate district. Proposals to reduce the number of provinces were also linked to a second issue, which was also frequently raised: Demonstrating the structural role played by particularism and municipalism in the constitutional history of Italy, discussions on how to divide the territory were also almost completely absorbed by an endless series of issues of local interest relating to individual cities or territorial areas.

An example is provided by the borderline case of Livorno, where the provincial territory was the same as the municipal area, so that it became necessary to reorganize the adjacent provinces in order to ensure that the province of Livorno achieved the dimensions required of a province.

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Complaints and petitions on the part of former provinces that had been suppressed or reduced in size as part of the new territorial partition of the Kingdom of Italy, which often gave rise to institutional conflicts, were so frequent that they became a recurrent theme of the times: One final question, which is no less important than the previous ones, lies at the core of these discussions: Many observers at the time emphasized the intolerable confusion that was created in the various territorial divisions, which was a source of very considerable inconvenience for citizens and of insupportable costs to public administration.

He arrived at a highly advanced, and almost unrealistic, proposal for one single system of territorial partition which would be effective for both the general and political administration of the state and the sectoral activities of the various ministries. He provided a list of the very numerous general and special partitions by which the Italian state was fragmented: From this panorama, the considerable work that would be necessary to reduce the reigning confusion even slightly, and to make the public administrative apparatus more efficient, emerged with blinding clarity.

To conclude, we can say that the confusion and irrationality of the administrative fabric of the new unified state was the result, on the one hand, of the peculiar patterns and timeframes of its political unification, and on the other, of the inability of the liberal Italian ruling class to create and complete a unitary, homogeneous plan for territorial division.

It is also not surprising that a large variety of peripheral territorial divisions instituted by individual ministries for their activities persisted alongside the general administrative constituencies of the state. From a territorial standpoint, the new unified Italian state focused primarily on its external borders, the lines delimiting the space of national state sovereignty, as has traditionally been the case for all modern states, and especially at the time when nation-states were emerging.

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