Naples ’44

Place · Town

Bari

Bari is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the region of Apulia, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is one of the most important economic centres of mainland southern Italy. It is a port and university city as well as the city of Saint Nicholas.

In the book

A rear-area town to the east, mentioned only in passing — a place a returning colleague travels through, and the kind of ordinary city that Lattarullo’s fictitious funeral ‘uncle’ is never allowed to come from (it always has to be Rome).

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Appears in 3 diary entries.

  1. October 15 1943
    Introduction of Vincente Lattarullo, an eccentric, impoverished informant obsessed with justice and etiquette, who becomes a key civilian contact.
  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.
  3. September 25 1944
    A reunion with an old colleague who has become almost entirely assimilated into Southern Italian life prompts reflection on how deeply the region changes people.

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