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In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see the stories behind them remain largely hidden.
In Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things -- Vesuvius, the Camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves.
Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.
Contents
1. The Serpent Coiled in Naples // 1
2. An Octopus in Forcella // 28
3. Street of the Solitary Women // 60
4. The Man Who Watches the Waters // 92
5. Street Music // 121
6. Leopardi's Stomach // 150
7. Raimando di Sangro & the Veil of Knowledge // 181
8. Olde Bones // 210
9. The Devil at Play in the Quartieri Spagnoli // 264
10. Signor Volcano // 294
11. The Life and Death (and life) of Pulcinella // 329
12. Boom // 375
13. The Intimate Lives of Things Inanimate // 402
14. The Ghost Palace of Roberto De Simone // 428
15. An Infinitesimal Particle of the Vegetal Universe // 454
Notes // 489
Acknowledgements // 497
