Irma meets renowned novelist Raffaele La Capria (Capri and No Longer Capri) on the legendary island, home to Graham Greene, Compton Mackenzie and other writers lured by the island's beauty and myths.
In Naples, Neapolitan tour guide Antonella Rizzo, introduces Irma to the superstitions and miracles of life in the city; American travel writer, Michael Pauls, explains how the Neapolitans' historical bad luck has shaped their fatalism and under the shadow of Vesuvius scientist Giovanni Orsi at the Vesuvius Observatory explains how and why they are monitoring the activity of the infamous volcano 24 hours a day.
Irma bids farewell to Italy in the company of the words of the 17th Century Neapolitan fairy-tale writer, Giambattista Basile.
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