Beppe Severgnini is a columnist for Italy's largest-circulation daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera and covered Italy for The Economist from 1993 to 2003. He is also the author of the international bestseller Ciao, America! Beppe lived in London for more than fifteen years and is a self-confessed Anglophile. He now lives with his family in Crema on the outskirts of Milan.
'A keen observer of human nature, he watches his compatriots with amused insight... Laugh-out-loud funny.' International Herald and Tribune 'A luscious disquisition on the Italian national character' The Washington Post