Entry 45 · Book chapter 46

February 12 1944

Lewis reflects on the cultural gulf between cosmopolitan Naples and the archaic, vendetta-bound countryside just miles away, as seen through Lattarullo's ignorance of it.

Reflections

Naples's cultural distance from its own hinterland

Lewis observes that cosmopolitan Naples knows and cares nothing for the archaic, vendetta-bound countryside just miles away — his contact Lattarullo has visited Rome many times but never once turned aside into nearby Afragola.

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