Naples ’44

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Procida

Procida
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Background

Procida is one of the Phlegraean Islands off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. The island is between Cape Miseno and the island of Ischia. With its tiny satellite island of Vivara, it is a comune (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the region of Campania.

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In Naples ’44

The prison island of which ‘little but blood-chilling legends’ is known, the destination of lifers and of the petty thieves who fill its cells while well-connected racketeers walk free — the book’s recurring image of one-sided justice.

Appears in 3 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 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.
  3. May 11 1944
    A visit to the confident, well-connected prisoner Fortuna, who expects to be acquitted of a penicillin-racketeering charge despite Lewis's evidence.

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