On a Cure for Serpents

This is an interesting look at the Italian colonial empire—especially Libya but, to lesser extent, Eritrea—from the perspective of an Italian doctor who later became a colonial administrator. He has an aristocratic sense to him, and he very clearly plays on orientalist fantasies, but he also offers perspectives that you can’t really find elsewhere, especially with regard to Tuareg and Imazighen in the Sahara during the 1920s and 1930s. Worth the read, but it might be best to take some of Denti di Pirajno’s stories with a grain of salt.