La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language

Simultaneously erudite and engaging! A great gift for one interested in language, culture, love, food, history etc. Dianne Hales covers it all with wit,flare and extensive research. Every one of her sentences is a savory morsel.

Great little book, especially for those who have been to Italy and can share in a lot of the experiences and cultural "differences" that the author charmingly recounts. I loved all the little personal encounters and stories of her time spent in Italy and the people that she met there - for that is what I find truly "Italian" about Italy, the complex relationships that one...more

Great little book, especially for those who have been to Italy and can share in a lot of the experiences and cultural "differences" that the author charmingly recounts. I loved all the little personal encounters and stories of her time spent in Italy and the people that she met there - for that is what I find truly "Italian" about Italy, the complex relationships that one might happen to get into in an instant, and other ones that must be cultivated with intense effort and a lot of perseverance. :) Benissimo!   hide