Naples ’44

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Carlo Del Giudice

A non-practising Naples lawyer scraping a living writing newspaper articles on folklore and astronomy, and an expert on San Gennaro and Vesuvius.

In the book

Introduced by Lattarullo during the 1944 eruption; he quizzes Lewis about the threatened towns, supplies much of the book’s San Gennaro lore, and later joins the parade of eccentric visitors to Lewis’s hospital bed.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. March 24 1944
    With the eruption subsiding, Lewis meets Del Giudice, an eccentric folklore writer and expert on San Gennaro and Vesuvius.

    non-practising lawyer turned folklore/astronomy writer, an expert on San Gennaro and Vesuvius

  2. June 9 1944
    Hospitalized again with malaria, Lewis receives a parade of eccentric visitors from his network of contacts, to the disapproval of hospital staff.

    visits Lewis in hospital

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