While the height of the White Lotus craze has ended, the sun hasn’t set on everyone’s fascination with Italy. No one is necessarily flocking to the peninsula to spend their days having passive-aggressive dinners; rather, they're looking to make Italy a second home by becoming Italian citizens with second passports.
That’s what John Tarabini, a 62-year-old retired marketing executive from Silicon Valley, did. In April 2020, he applied for Italian citizenship along with seven family members to honor his late mother, who was of Italian descent. He received his citizenship in August 2021, and his second passport that November. He plans to stay based in the States while spending two or three months in Italy a year, he tells Fortune.
