The Italian Lesson [Installment 18]

Isabella’s metallic black Alfa Romeo Giulia purred as I shifted into sixth gear. I kept one eye on the speedometer because the ride was so smooth I could never tell when I was speeding—which, despite the 80 mile-an-hour speed limit on Italian highways, was often.

Calabresi receded into the distance, the stones of the fortification struck by the glancing…