By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy

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cheerless grey, but under any sky it is dispiriting to note the changes

in Naples. Lo sventramento (the disembowelling) goes on, and regions

are transformed. It is a good thing, I suppose, that the broad Corso

Umberto I. should cut a way through the old Pendino; but what a

contrast between that native picturesqueness and the cosmopolitan

vulgarity which has usurped its place! “Napoli se ne va!” I pass the

Santa Lucia with downcast eyes, my memories of ten years ago striving

against the dulness of to-day. The harbour, whence one used to start

for Capri, is filled up; the sea has been driven to a hopeless distance

beyond a wilderness of dust-heaps. They are going to make a long,

straight embankment from the Castel dell’Ovo to the Great Port, and

before long the Santa Lucia will be an ordinary street, shut in among

huge houses, with no view at all. Ah, the nights that one lingered

here, watching the crimson glow upon Vesuvius, tracing the dark line of

the Sorrento promontory, or waiting for moonlight to cast its magic

upon floating Capri! The odours remain; the stalls of sea-fruit are as

yet undisturbed, and the jars of the water-sellers; women still comb

and bind each other’s hair by the wayside, and meals are cooked and

eaten al fresco as of old. But one can see these things elsewhere,

and Santa Lucia was unique. It has become squalid. In the grey light of

this sad billowy sky, only its ancient foulness is manifest; there

needs the golden sunlight to bring out a suggestion of its ancient

charm.

Has Naples grown less noisy, or does it only seem so to me? The men

with bullock carts are strangely quiet; their shouts have nothing like

the frequency and spirit of former days. In the narrow and thronged

Strada di Chiaia I find little tumult; it used to be deafening. Ten