The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures

Posted on the 02 April 2013 by Expectlabs @ExpectLabs

Italians are famous for using hand gestures to underscore what they’re saying, particularly in the area around Naples. In Bruno Munari’s book, Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesturehe includes a collection of Neapolitan hand gestures originally published in 1958 as a supplement to the Italian dictionary.

From left to right, they are: money, past times, affirmation, stupid, good, wait a moment, to walk backward, to steal, horns, to ask for.

Which gestures did the illustration miss?

(via Brain Pickings)