Entry 81 · Book chapter 82
July 24 1944
Reflections on Naples's theatrical character, including an elaborate deathbed farewell ceremony and a search of an arrested prince's opulent apartment.
Themes
Reflections
Naples as an 'Eastern city'
Quoting the journalist Scarfoglio's line that Naples is 'the only Eastern city where there is no residential European quarter,' Lewis finds it still holds true, prompted by an aristocrat's theatrically staged deathbed farewell.
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