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Aversa

Aversa is a city and comune in the Province of Caserta in Campania, southern Italy, about 24 km north of Naples. It is the centre of an agricultural district, the Agro Aversano, producing wine and cheese. Aversa is also the main seat of the faculties of Architecture and Engineering of the Università degli studi della Campania “L.

In the book

One of the towns north of Naples in Lewis’s patch, recurring with famine-driven crime, impoverished nobility and village denunciations.

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Appears in 4 diary entries.

October 22 1943
Amid ongoing famine, Lewis investigates an assault on a peasant family by deserters, and is later approached with a plea for help from one of the victims.
- War & violence
- Poverty & hunger
November 5 1943
New contacts Losurdo and Mosca reveal the same pattern as Lattarullo: impoverished nobility clinging to grand, half-empty palazzi.
- Poverty & hunger
- Naples's character
December 18 1943
Lewis describes how gullible unit commanders and their local interpreters get dragged into baseless denunciations and village feuds, including against a corrupt police marshal.
- Crime & banditry
- Bureaucracy & absurdity
January 5 1944
Lewis takes charge of security for several nearby towns, unknowingly located deep in Camorra territory, and finds poverty behind their picturesque exteriors.
- Poverty & hunger
- Crime & banditry

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