360° Panorama - Curzio Malaparte
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Malaparte was an Italian journalist and writer writer best known by Americans for his novel dealing with the Italian experience with Americans at the end of World War II called, in English, The Skin.  This book and an earlier one, Kaputt, concerning the Italian experience with the Germans at the beginning of World War II made Malaparte a household name in Italy in the 40s and 50s. Originally from Prato, just north of Florence, he built a unique modernist house on a rock outcropping on Capri in the 1930s. He asked to be buried on this hill overlooking Prato. Both the city and region had to grant that unusal request. Malaparte's books are both serious and funny, poking a lot of fun at Tuscans and Italian, as well as everyone else. Reading his novels and his essays allows one to understand the Italian mentality, or at least, the Tuscan mentality. For Malaparte, the only one that mattered.

Malaparte house on the island of Capri