Il Circolo and Fondazione Rava NPH presents “Italiani si rimane” by Beppe Severgnini
The author will be in conversation with Enrico Franceschini
An ironic, emotional, and educational journey: the book retraces Severgnini’s life from his first steps in journalism under the guide of Indro Montanelli to his first article on The New York Times, trying do extrapolate a lesson from each experience.
“Italiani si rimane” is not only an autobiography, but a biography of a whole generation: with an intimate and surprising narration, it discusses the time passing, the bonds with land and family, the pleasure of teaching and watching new talents grow.
Event in English
Beppe Severgnini is the editor-in-chief of Corriere della Sera’s weekly magazine 7, a columnist, and the author of seventeen books, including the American bestsellers Ciao, America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. and La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind. His most recent books are Italiani si rimane (Solferino, Milan 2018), a memoir; and Off the Rail – A Train Trip Through Life (Berkley, New York 2019). He became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times in 2013. His writing has appeared in The Financial Times and The Economist, where he was the Italy correspondent from 1996 to 2003. In 2004, he was voted “European Journalist of the Year” by the readers of the European Voice, a Brussels newspaper. Mr. Severgnini studied law at the University of Pavia. As a foreign correspondent, he was posted in London, Moscow and Washington; he also covered Eastern Europe, China and the Middle East. He teaches at the School of Journalism of the University of Milan, and he has been a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an Isaiah Berlin visiting scholar at Oxford University and a visiting fellow at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. In 2001, Mr. Severgnini was made an Officer of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2011 the president of Italy conferred on him the title of commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He lives near Milan with his wife and son.
Enrico Franceschini is the London correspondent of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, for which he previously worked in New York, Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem. For his coverage of post- Soviet Russia he won the Europe Prize for Journalism in 1994. He is the author of a dozen books of fiction and non-fiction, including Voglio l’America (2009) and Londra Babilonia (2011).