Naples ’44

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Frattamaggiore

Frattamaggiore
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Background

Frattamaggiore is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Naples and 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest of Caserta. It was awarded the title of “City of art” in 2008 and named Benedictine city in 1997.

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In Naples ’44

A Camorra-country town near Aversa — home of the bandit Domenico ‘Lupo’, and the site of one of the harsh new joint police raids on a bandit hideout that Lewis observes.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. May 3 1944
    The story of Domenico "Lupo" (Wolf), a released bandit who reorganizes his Camorra-style Robin Hood operation with Allied-issued credentials.
  2. May 7 (ii) 1944
    Frustrated by unresolved banditry, the General pressures Italian police into a harsher new anti-bandit operation, which Lewis observes as an onlooker.

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