Naples ’44

Place · Town

Caserta

Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. An important agricultural, commercial, and industrial comune and city, Caserta is located 36 kilometres north of Naples on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range. The city is best known for the 18th-century Bourbon Royal Palace of Caserta.

In the book

Everyone visits it for its royal palace, but for Lewis it mainly marks distance: the road to it runs right past Afragola, yet Afragola’s vendetta world stays, for Neapolitans, a thousand miles away. It is also a target for the Lupo band’s train hijackings.

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Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. February 12 1944
    Lewis reflects on the cultural gulf between cosmopolitan Naples and the archaic, vendetta-bound countryside just miles away, as seen through Lattarullo's ignorance of it.
  2. May 3 1944
    The story of Domenico "Lupo" (Wolf), a released bandit who reorganizes his Camorra-style Robin Hood operation with Allied-issued credentials.

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