Survival kit for communicating with Italians even without speaking

Maybe it’s a legacy from our theatrical heritage, for example the “commedia dell'arte”, or perhaps simply because we are too passionate a people to be able to coop up all this energy inside our bodies. The fact is that we Italians are the world champions of “non-verbal communication”: it seems that there are no less than 250 different types of gestures that we Italians use daily in our conversations.