Naples ’44

Place · Landmark

Castel Capuano

Castel Capuano
Armando Mancini · CC BY-SA 2.0

Background

Castel Capuano is a castle in Naples, southern Italy. It takes its name from the fact that it was at that point in the city walls where the road led out to the city of Capua. The castle is at the southwest end of via dei Tribunali, and until recently housed the Naples Hall of Justice, which has now moved to the new Civic Center, the Centro Direzionale.

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In Naples ’44

The old castle housing Naples’s courts, where Lewis watches wartime justice at its most arbitrary — smuggling trials collapsing through incompetence, punishment landing only on the weak.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. January 19 1944
    Chaotic, arbitrary court proceedings at Castel Capuano illustrate the absurd unevenness of wartime justice, set against an open black market.
  2. March 13 1944
    The crackdown on the black market punishes only the powerless, as shown by a farcical smuggling trial that collapses through prosecutorial incompetence.

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