Naples ’44

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Riviera di Chiaia

Riviera di Chiaia
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Background

The Riviera di Chiaia is a long street in the Italian city of Naples, running along the coast of the Gulf of Naples.

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In Naples ’44

The seafront street where the section takes over a grand requisitioned palazzo. Lewis’s Sunday observations here — aristocratic grandeur mixed with teeming working-class street life — are among the book’s fondest passages.

Appears in 5 diary entries.

  1. October 6 1943
    Arriving in a ruined, waterless Naples, the section settles into a grand requisitioned palazzo on the Riviera di Chiaia.
  2. November 10 1943
    A Neapolitan prince and his sister calmly request that she be admitted to a (nonexistent) army brothel, illustrating the era's blunt attitudes to sex and survival.
  3. December 9 1943
    A Sunday spent observing the palazzo neighborhood's blend of aristocratic grandeur and thriving working-class street life.
  4. May 3 1944
    The story of Domenico "Lupo" (Wolf), a released bandit who reorganizes his Camorra-style Robin Hood operation with Allied-issued credentials.
  5. October 8 1944
    Mob violence breaks out against local girls seen with Allied soldiers, and the section is controversially ordered to intervene with sub-machine guns.

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