by Cesare Marchi · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817534512
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«Quando eravamo povera gente» is an essay on social history by Cesare Marchi, published by Rizzoli in hardback (195 pages, in Italian).
Cesare Marchi evokes the pre-industrial Italy of the first half of the twentieth century, when fetching water from the well or eating meat only on Sundays was part of everyday life. With nostalgia and irony, he reviews vanished trades and customs of a country where poverty was neither shame nor guilt, before it became an industrial power.
The book bears the subtitle «L'Italia tribolata dei nostri nonni raccontata agli ignari e benestanti nipoti» and was originally published in 1988.
For readers interested in Italian social history and twentieth-century everyday life, with a tone between nostalgia and irony.
