To be a real Italian you need to be able to compromise

Wise compromise is one of the basic principles and virtues of the Italians.
It is famous the publisher who from a French political book "The Popular Front" made an exciting, pornographic book called the "The Popular Behind".
And all for Revenues' sake.
The genius for compromise has another aspect too.
It has a tendency to give everything its chance.
It is all right to have windows, and in the North of Europe for example they invented the double windows.
In Italy you must not have double windows, because double windows would indeed stop the wind from blowing right into the room, and, after all, you must be fair and give the wind a chance.
It is all right to have central heating in an Italian home, except the bathroom, because that is the only place where you are naked AND wet at the same time, and you must give Italian germs a fair chance.
The open fire is an accepted, indeed a traditional, institution.
You sit in front of it and your face is hot, whilst your back is cold.
It is a fair compromise between two extremes and settles the problem how to burn and catch cold at the same time.
Italian political life is a huge and non compromising fight between compromising Conservatives and compromising Socialists.