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Caivano

Caivano is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of Naples.

In the book

One of the Camorra-zone towns north of Naples in Lewis’s security patch, recurring with denunciation cases, the eccentric landowner ‘La Pitonessa’, and the bandit ‘Lupo’.

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Appears in 5 diary entries.

December 20 1943
Investigating a wartime denunciation case, Lewis interviews an informer with a criminal record about his role in betraying escaped Indian soldiers to the Germans.
- War & violence
- Crime & banditry
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
January 7 1944
A visit to Donna Maria "La Pitonessa," a former circus performer turned wealthy landowner, in the Camorra zone.
- Crime & banditry
- Naples's character
May 3 1944
The story of Domenico "Lupo" (Wolf), a released bandit who reorganizes his Camorra-style Robin Hood operation with Allied-issued credentials.
- Crime & banditry
June 9 1944
Hospitalized again with malaria, Lewis receives a parade of eccentric visitors from his network of contacts, to the disapproval of hospital staff.
- Naples's character
- Disease & health

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