There is nothing quite like Naples. There are other Italian cities, set in romantic bays, burdened with history and bulging with joie de vivre. The things of Naples are found everywhere in Italy; and there is nothing in it which is un-Italian. And yet ... Naples is different. This book celebrates it with magnificent pictures -- the paradox of the city and its perverse charms, and an introduction which describes this "most eastern city of the west, the most western city of the east."