A year among the Italians had converted me to such an admir… - Norman Lewis

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A year among the Italians had converted me to such an admiration for their humanity and culture that I realise that were I given the chance to be born again and to choose the place of my birth, Italy would be the country of my choice.

Norman Lewis

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Norman Lewis (28 June 1908 – 22 July 2003) was an influential British journalist and a prolific travel author.

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Alternative Names: John Frederick Norman Lewis

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Naples is extraordinary in every way.

It is astonishing to witness the struggles of this city so shattered, so starved, so deprived of all those things that justify a city’s existence, to adapt itself to a collapse into conditions which must resemble life in the Dark Ages. People camp out like Bedouins in deserts of brick.

There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city.

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