La pancia degli italiani

Synopsis of La pancia degli italiani

«La pancia degli italiani. Berlusconi spiegato ai posteri» is the political essay by Beppe Severgnini, published by Rizzoli in hardback (193 pages).

Severgnini asks why Italians supported or tolerated Berlusconi for so long. He prefers to explain it to posterity and analyses ten keys, from the human factor to the Palio factor, that move in the nation's «pancia»: humanity, opportunism, caution, cunning, distraction, confusion, fantasy and optimism. The edition adds the latest episodes of the Berlusconi era.

The work was published on 27 October 2010, is written in Italian and belongs to the «Saggi italiani» collection by Rizzoli.

For readers interested in contemporary Italian politics, political leadership and popular culture around the figure of Berlusconi.