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Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius
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About Seeing Naples: Reports From The Shadow Of Vesuvius
The exotic, bustling train station of Napoli Centrale offers a springboard into the city of Naples. Fishmongers, black marketers, and clergymen mingle in open-air markets of lower Naples beneath fluttering laundry. Expeditions to the island of Capri and Matera, a stone-hewn city in mysterious Basilicata region, follow. Seeing Naples revisits another astute observer of the city, Vittorio De Sica, who filmed the city’s buildings and alleyways in the early 1950’s in his classic movie, The Gold of Naples. It deals with topics of personal power and obligation, self-presentation, gambling, sex, money, love and death, often as played out in public settings, and is pictured in beautiful stills from the movie and the stories retold briefly by the author. Central to the book are Rothbart’s conversations and interviews with remarkable Neapolitans and the photographs that accompany them. . The book also interprets dramatic historic narratives linked to the sights of the city, such as the life of Masaniello, a seventeenth century fishmonger, who led a people's rebellion against the Spanish, developed a taste for power and privilege himself, and was assassinated
