John Hooper’s marvellously engaging and perceptive fresh book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand modern Italy and the initial character from the Italians. Looking at the facts that lay behind – and often belie – the stereotypes, his disclosing book sheds brand-new light on many areas of Italian lifestyle: soccer and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism and the key reason why Italian has twelve words for any coat hanger, however none for any hangover.