Entry 20 · Book chapter 21
October 15 1943
Introduction of Vincente Lattarullo, an eccentric, impoverished informant obsessed with justice and etiquette, who becomes a key civilian contact.
Reflections
Educated poverty and family pride
Reflecting on Lattarullo, Lewis notes Naples has thousands of unemployed lawyers and doctors — families starve themselves so a son can be addressed with the honorific avvocato or dottore, even if he never practises.
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