Naples ’44

Person · Civilian friend

Don Ubaldo

Background

The schoolmaster of the Benevento town, nominally on the rolls of a left-wing party.

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In Naples ’44

Gives Lewis the long historical view of Southern Italian banditry — that the bands surface whenever order collapses and attach themselves to the landowners. He dies of typhoid, and the section moves on to Sagranella.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. August 21 1944
    A schoolmaster explains the long, entrenched history of banditry in Southern Italy, including bandits' traditional ties to landowners.

    schoolmaster who explains the long history of Southern Italian banditry

  2. September 3 1944
    Following Don Ubaldo's death, the section relocates to a remote, archaic hill village with its own strange local fox-cult ritual.

    dies of typhoid

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