Naples ’44

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Sagranella

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In Naples ’44

The remote hill village — with its ‘strange local fox-cult ritual’ — where the section relocates after Don Ubaldo’s death in September 1944, and where Lewis realises with unease that locals take him for a jettatore.

Appears in 3 diary entries.

  1. September 3 1944
    Following Don Ubaldo's death, the section relocates to a remote, archaic hill village with its own strange local fox-cult ritual.
  2. September 6 1944
    The generous but reckless Canadians treat everything, including two local girls they've picked up, with careless ease; Lewis is assigned to probe a clandestine political party.
  3. September 23 1944
    Lewis realizes with unease that locals now regard him as a possible *jettatore* (bearer of the evil eye), noting superstitious gestures made in his presence. He then reflects that a year after liberation, still hungry and diseased amid lawless ruins with only the distant promise of corrupt democracy ahead, Neapolitans may reasonably look back on the Mussolini years as a lost paradise by comparison.

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