Books
March, 1956
It's good fun to recall Alberto Moravia's wry comment on the North American phenomena known as The Kinsey Reports. "An ignorant Italian peasant," he has said, "knows all of these things before he is twenty." Moravia today is 49, and certainly no peasant. He has fifteen published novels, two plays and a movie script for The Woman of Rome, starring Gina Lollobrigida as the ill-starred woman. He is, without much doubt, the finest writer to emerge from Italy since the farewell to...
