Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Luigi Barzini Jr. (Milan, December 21, 1908 Rome, March 30, 1984) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book The Italians, delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture. Barzini junior was born in Milan, Lombardy, the son of Luigi Barzini, Sr., a famous journalist. In the 1920s, his father left the Corriere della Sera and moved to the United States, where he directed the Italian-American newspaper Corriere d'America from 1923 to 1931.