Naples ’44

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Professore Placella

Background

A Naples gynaecologist whose speciality is the surgical restoration of virginity — his replacement, he boasts, is better than the original.

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In Naples ’44

Parkinson’s most valuable medical contact; he helps expose the hospital racket by which syphilitic prostitutes bought clean bills of health, and later helps spring the trap on the coercive VD round-up.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  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.

    gynaecologist specialising in the restoration of virginity, one of Parkinson's medical contacts

  2. October 16 1944
    A large-scale, coercive round-up of women for VD examinations follows a tip from a gynecologist contact, exposing the harsh methods used to fight the disease.

    helps set the trap that exposes the VD round-up operation

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