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Amalfi

Amalfi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, at the foot of Monte Cerreto, surrounded by dramatic cliffs and coastal scenery. The town of Amalfi was the capital of the maritime republic known as the Duchy of Amalfi, an important trading power in the Mediterranean between 839 and around 1200.

In the book

Appears once, when Lewis drives the folklore writer Del Giudice there to see the thrice-yearly liquefaction of the ‘manna’ relic of St Andrew — one of the book’s studies of Neapolitan religious spectacle.

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Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. June 27 1944

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