To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say— no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009) - ISBN: 9781408808665