Volume 27, Number 1 · February 7, 1980
Una Grande Calamità
By Luigi Barzini
Four Days of Naples
by Aubrey Menen
Seaview Books, 287 pp., $9.95
Naples '44
by Norman Lewis
Pantheon, 206 pp., $8.95
Naples is a bewildering, irritating, bewitching, and deceptive city not only for foreigners (a term which, in Naples, includes all other Italians), but for most Neapolitans too. General Carlo Filangieri (1784-1867), prince of Satriano, duke of Taormina, could be used as an exemplary illustration of how the people themselves feel about their own city. He was the son of Gaetano, an illustrious philosopher of the Neapolitan (and European) Enlightenment, whose Scienza della legislazione, considered one of the fundamental books of the century, was famous in France and read in the United States. Benjamin Franklin was one of his admirers.
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