Is there is an English version of the book Allegro Ma Non Troppo by Carlo Maria Cipolla?

The answer is yes and no.  The book contains two essays in
Italian.  One of them is translated into English and the other is not.  The title of
this book comes from a musical term and means “quickly, but not too quickly” and the
author applies it to humans as “happy, but not too happy” in this Italian book.  The
book includes the famous “Five Laws of Human Stupidity”.  You can read an English
translation here:

  href="http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm">http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm

 The
second essay is “The Role of Spices (and Black Pepper in Particular) in Medieval
Economic Development” and this essay claims that black pepper is an aphrodisiac. This
essay is not as popular and does  not