The sun, the food, lazy days and pastel colors… but is that the real Italy? The particular fascination that Germans have for the Bel Paese says plenty about both countries.
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A spurious happy ending and a focus on the marvels of the exotic East characterize our understanding of The Travels of Marco Polo, the book about the 13th-century Italian explorer. But the Italian writer who worked on the book’s latest translation reveals how focused on war, profit and money the explorer was — and how translators sugarcoated the work through the centuries.