Person · Camorrista / bandit

Cuoca

The last of the great Camorra chieftains, a figure of the 1920s.

In the book

His end is told on Lewis’s tourist day at Pozzuoli: deposed by his own underlings, he was feasted and embraced at a ‘funeral feast’ at Vicenzo a Mare, then taken away and stabbed to death.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. July 12 1944
    A rare day off as tourist to Pozzuoli reveals a town strangely untouched by the war, calmer and more foreign-feeling than the rest of the Naples area.

    described as the last of the great Camorra chieftains; lured to a funeral feast at Pozzuoli and assassinated by his own underlings in the 1920s

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