Naples ’44

Place · District

Posillipo (Naples)

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

In the book

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.

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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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