The Italians of the South live, just as Africans do, on bread dipped in olive oil. - Norman Lewis

Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples.

To my surprise, definite occupation was found for me on my last visit to HQ: to investigate the motives of a clandestine political party operating in this area... Some are regarded as more purposeful and sinister including the one to be investigated, called Forza Italia!, which is suspected of Neo-Fascist leanings. My contacts in Benevento dismiss it with scorn as just another maniac right-wing movement backed by the landlords and the rural Mafia, run in this case by a half-demented latifundista who proclaims himself a reincarnation of Garibaldi.

[...]everybody used the polite form of address lei instead of the Fascists’ forthright Roman voi.