Naples ’44

Person · Aristocrat

Luisa

Background

The sister of the informant Prince A.

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In Naples ’44

On the visit when her brother asks whether she might be admitted to a (nonexistent) British army brothel, she takes the refusal with the same ‘polite calm’ — a small scene of the era’s blunt calculus of sex and survival.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. November 10 1943
    A Neapolitan prince and his sister calmly request that she be admitted to a (nonexistent) army brothel, illustrating the era's blunt attitudes to sex and survival.

    the Prince's sister, for whom he requests entry to a nonexistent army brothel

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