Naples ’44

Person · Allied colleague

Eric Williams

Background

The section’s best Italian speaker.

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In Naples ’44

Sent as ‘a solitary exile’ to run security in Nola, where the Feast of the Lily brings the town — and the army’s telephone lines — to a standstill; his complaints supply one of the book’s set-piece feast stories.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. October 6 1943
    Arriving in a ruined, waterless Naples, the section settles into a grand requisitioned palazzo on the Riviera di Chiaia.

    best Italian speaker, sent as a solitary exile to Nola

  2. June 27 1944
    A colleague describes a revived, medieval-style flagellant procession at Guardia Sanframondi; two more feast stories follow — Nola's Feast of the Lily disrupting army telephone lines, and a trip to Amalfi for the thrice-yearly 'manna' relic of St Andrew.

    describes his frustrations with the Feast of the Lily disrupting telephone lines at Nola

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