The Italian TeacherConceived while his larger than life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father's genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthyfirst as a painter, and then as his father's biographer, before settling, disillusioned, into a job teaching Italian in London. And when Bear dies, Pinch hatches a scheme to secure his father's legacy. What makes an