Originally published: 2009.; Includes "Reader's guide" (p. [312]-314).
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My Italian brain and how it grew --; Confessions of an Innamorata --; The unlikely rise of a vulgar tongue --; To hell and back with Dante Alighieri --; Italian's literary lions --; The baking of a masterpiece --; How Italian civilized the West --; La storia dell'arte --; On golden wings --; Eating Italian --; So many ways to say "I love you" --; Marcello and me --; Irreverent Italian --; Mother tongue.
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Follows the author's quest to learn Italian over twenty-five years and her study of the ties between the language and Italy's culture, literature, history and food.