Naples ’44

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Posillipo (Naples)

Posillipo (Naples)
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Posillipo is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.

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In Naples ’44

The headland across the bay where, Lewis notes, Pliny watched the eruption that buried Pompeii — and where Lewis himself stands to watch Vesuvius erupt in 1944.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. October 25 1943
    Lewis reflects on the city's collapse into near-medieval conditions — makeshift clothing, scavenging, and looting of abandoned military equipment.

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