Difendiamo l’italiano dalla volgarità culturale

Form and beauty, joy and endurance in the face of suffering, a sense of what's real, a dislike for certain forms of rhetoric, a dissociation from abstraction and the rejection of a "psychological tradition": these are some of the distinctive traits that over the centuries have contributed to shaping the Italian identity. To be clear, we are talking of the identity that fascinated both well-known and unknown figures of the European fashionable set and led them - almost overwhelmed by some kind of categorical imperative - to undertake the celebrated "Journey through Italy".