The ITALIAN DISPATCH By Eric J Lyman
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✍️ The 40-Minute Problem
Romans overlook the hill towns in their back yard. But that’s good news for everyone else
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The Zebra-Print Shoe
On a road near Rome, I found a woman more frightened of speaking than of dying
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✍️ Rome, from the Right Angle
A year of looking at my home city through new eyes
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Two Countries, One Warning
A visit to my mother’s homeland made me worry more about Italy’s burgeoning tourist economy
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✍️ The Writer Who Knew Too Much
A story about losing my nerve among the literary ghosts around the Spanish Steps
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How to Offend an Italian (without meaning to)
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Not Up to You
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Revisiting Italy’s Unwritten Rulebook
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Italy Has a Migrant Problem, but Not the One You Think
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A Thousand-Year-Old Fight
From Napoleon to Trump, powerful men have tried to bring the papacy to heel. It rarely works.
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✍️ The Questions I Didn’t Prepare For
Monarchy, relationships, and a bullet: one evening in Florence
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You Won’t Know Until Later
The restaurant you won’t go back to, and the endings you forget
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✍️ Italy Explained
A foolproof handbook a day early, because why waste time?
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Saved by a Parking Lot
In Rome, the ancient dead survive by chance
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It’s Not What You Know.
How 'raccomandazione' decides who gets a chance in Italy -- and why the practice endures
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