![]() The poets and writers associated with Turin include Guido Gozzano, Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Lalla Romano, Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Paolo Giordano, and Alessandro Baricco. And it is still considered a literary-cultural capital, the home of a major newspaper, important publishing houses, world-class museums, and a famous book fair. ![]() In the nineteenth century, Turin was unified Italy’s first capital, the home of the royal Savoy dynasty, and the crucible of political, scientific, cultural, and industrial power. It makes perfect sense that the cultured Airota family should live in Turin. At the end of the second season her first book gets published because of Adele’s connections. Pietro’s elite Turinese family aids Elena’s social and professional ascent. Pietro’s father, Professor Airota, is an esteemed and influential scholar his mother, a sophisticated intellectual and his sister, a professor of art history in Milan. ![]() Soon Pietro is besotted with her and after a lively lunch at which he introduces her to his parents and sister, he tells her to come visit him in Turin where his family lives. ![]() In the second season of HBO/RAI’s TV series My Brilliant Friend, Elena Greco meets Pietro Airota, a student at the prestigious university Elena is attending on a scholarship. ![]()
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