Vidal admits he didn’t speak Italian well – but is convinced they don’t have a word for wit. Vidal had many Italian friends and his partner, Howard, not only spoke fluent Italian, he understood different dialects – they did get nuance…
The only word I know that comes close to wit – is arguzia, but could be closer to sarcasm…but I’m not close to fluency either. : )
Thankfully we have Gore, on Youtube, forever. He may be gone but he was prescient for 6 decades, often considered America’s biographer, writing from afar.
He spoke about the CIA, the security state, and just about everything anyone’s talking about, only he did it 4 decades earlier.
Gore, my lodestar