Person · Informant / contact
Donna Maria Fidora ('La Pitonessa')
The richest landowner near Caivano, a former circus performer who had wrestled a python — hence ‘La Pitonessa’.
In the book
Lewis’s first contact inside the Camorra zone outside the police; barred as a woman from the Camorra itself but a valuable informant, she runs her late husband’s estate with professional efficiency and turns up, incongruously, at Lewis’s hospital bedside.
Appears in 2 diary entries.
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January 7 1944A visit to Donna Maria "La Pitonessa," a former circus performer turned wealthy landowner, in the Camorra zone.
wealthy landowner near Caivano, former circus python-wrestler; not Camorra herself (women excluded) but a valuable informant
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June 9 1944Hospitalized 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 along with Lo Scalzo and a Camorra contact
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