Books - Southern Italy

Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi,

Torregreca – Life, Death, Miracles, Ann Cornelisen, 1969 (This story takes place in Tricarico, although Ann Cornelisen calls it Torregreca)

Women of the Shadows – A Study of the Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy, Ann Cornelisen, 1976

Old Calabria, Norman Douglas, 1915

Land Reform in Italy, Lowry Nelson, 1956

A Traveller In Southern Italy, H. V Morton, 1969 (Morton was a journalist in England, who wrote several books on travel.  According to a biography he didn’t speak Italian, although from his writing one would believe that he did, also some of his interesting chance-meetings with people were fabricated.  Morton mentions Norman Douglas, author of “Old Calabria” several times.   

Naples

The Skin, Curzio Malaparte   Naples during the allied occupation of WW II, 1952

Naples’ 44 – An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth, Norman Lewis, 1979