Entry 89 · Book chapter 90
August 21 1944
A schoolmaster explains the long, entrenched history of banditry in Southern Italy, including bandits' traditional ties to landowners.
Themes
Reflections
Fascism remembered as a 'golden interlude'
Discussing Southern Italy's long history of banditry with the schoolmaster Don Ubaldo, Lewis records that most people were already beginning to see the Fascist era as a golden interlude of security and firm government.
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