The explosions of artillery shells, the smoldering ruins of Carthage, the scorched summer mountains of Sicily: these are the "fire hills" of Chad Davidson's Italy, a realm in which the sun-drenched fields of Western imagination give way to chaos and contradiction, a place where the frenetic pace of modernity is locked in a daily struggle with its own barbaric history. As the ash settles and the smoke clears, we realize that what we remember is...
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