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  "path": "/issues/2026-4-25/to-italy-with-love",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  The Campania region, in southwestern Italy, as seen through the eyes of Eleonora d’Angelo.\n\n##### A new coffee-table book offers a visual antidote to the country’s overtourism crisis, capturing its most untouched corners through the eyes of local photographers\n\nBy Elena Clavarino\n\nItaly is the country of the Amalfi Coast, pizza, and pasta; the Vatican, Venice, and Portofino; Berlusconi, mozzarella, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But every dish, monument, and landscape is layered with history and complexities. “Let’s get one thing straight,” the Italian essayist Beppe Severgnini wrote. “Your Italy and our _Italia_ are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. _Italia,_ on the other hand, is a maze. It’s alluring, but complicated.”\n\nSince founding the online publication Italy READ ON",
  "title": "To Italy with Love"
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