Entry 28 · Book chapter 29
November 5 1943
New contacts Losurdo and Mosca reveal the same pattern as Lattarullo: impoverished nobility clinging to grand, half-empty palazzi.
Reflections
Genteel poverty as a historical constant
Comparing his near-destitute contacts Lattarullo, Losurdo and Mosca to Alexandre Dumas's 1835 account of Naples's aristocracy, Lewis concludes their poverty isn't just a wartime effect but a century-old pattern of the city's oversupplied professional classes.
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