Naples ’44

Place · Town

Taranto

Taranto, historically also called Tarent in English, is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Taranto, serving as an important commercial port as well as the main base of the Italian navy. With a population of 185,909 as of 2025, Taranto is the second-largest city in Apulia.

In the book

The eastern port: the place Lattarullo’s imaginary ‘uncle from Rome’ pointedly never comes from, and, at the end, the port where Lewis embarks on the ship taking him away from Naples for good.

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Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. October 15 1943
    Introduction of Vincente Lattarullo, an eccentric, impoverished informant obsessed with justice and etiquette, who becomes a key civilian contact.
  2. October 24 1944
    Lewis is abruptly ordered to a new mission repatriating Russian ex-POWs, sensing this marks the end of his time in Naples.

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