“I married six times, you know?” she continues. “Everyone thinks I’m a little bit wacky in the head . . . the crazy Giulia who changes her husbands like they’re socks. But I was just trying to find a man who would look at me the way Vitallo, my first husband, looked at me.” “And how would that be?” I ask. “The way you look at my Bianca. Like you would lay your body over a field of burning coals, so she could cross it without burning her feet.”

