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| Friday | |
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| From Malpensa to Milan | |
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| The airport, where we discover that Italians prefer exceptions to rules | |
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| The highway, or the psychopathology of the stoplight | |
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| The hotel, where singular people are not content with a double room | |
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| Saturday | |
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| In Milan | |
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| The restaurant, one way of sitting in judgment | |
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| The store, the field of lost battles | |
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| The nightspot, where foxes turn into peacocks | |
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| Sunday | |
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| Still in Milan | |
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| The condominium, a vertical space for oblique obsessions | |
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| The eat-in kitchen, the nerve center of domestic counterespionage | |
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| The bedroom, the bathroom, and how hard it is to find a space of your own | |
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| Monday | |
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| Toward Tuscany | |
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| The train, where many talk, few listen, and everyone understands | |
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| The museum, beautiful women on the walls | |
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| Television, where the Semi-Undressed Signorina acquires a cloak of significance | |
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| Tuesday | |
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| In Tuscany | |
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| The countryside, where we show that Italians are the world's leading manufacturers of emotions | |
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| The Italian piazza, a tool with more cutting edges than a Swiss-army knife | |
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| The window, framing fantasies that are sometimes cut short by a shutter | |
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| Wednesday | |
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| In Rome | |
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| The bank, a confrontation of confidence and cold feet | |
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| The office, the opera house of orderly anarchy | |
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| The shopping mall, a taste of America delivered to your door | |
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| Thursday | |
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| In Naples | |
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| The sidewalk, or on collective individualism | |
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| The automobile, and fumbling on the fold-down seats | |
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| The travel agency, where the nation flexes its flippancy and pampers its patriotism | |
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| Friday | |
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| In Sardinia | |
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| The waterfront, the convoluted charm of a liquid frontier | |
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| The beach, a bare outline | |
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| The garden, seclusion in bloom | |
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| Saturday | |
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| In Crema | |
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| The barber, the newsstand, and the town as lifebelt | |
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| The monument. And yet it moves | |
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| School, the workshop where shared memories are made | |
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| Sunday | |
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| From Crema to Malpensa, by Way of San Siro | |
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| The church, where we will ruminate on the moral menu | |
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| The stadium, notes on social gastroenterology | |
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| The horizon. In other words, give us back Columbus | |
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| Epilogue: A Letter from America | |
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| Acknowledgments | |