Italians Fight for the Right to Feast on the Beach

At 1 p.m. at the San Girolamo beach in Italy’s southern city of Bari, as the sun reached its summit and temperatures came close to 100 degrees, the smell of fried green peppers made its way through a thick maze of umbrellas and folding chairs.On plastic tables, decks of playing cards and crossword puzzles were replaced by cotton tablecloths, and loud shouts summoned the children for lunch. Aluminum trays of…