Kurt Erich von Suckert, alias Malaparte: A Maledetto Toscano (Part 3)
We conclude with the excerpt titled “The Widows” (Le vedove), which contains observations on social customs that may seem outdated today but remain partly valid. My “Battibecco” column on that difficult profession of being a widow earned me a hundred letters from widows all over Italy. Not all, of course, poisoned their husbands with rat…