{"product_id":"virgils-golden-egg-and-other-neapolitan-miracles-paperback-softback","title":"Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeapolitans are considered the cleverest, most imaginative, most romantic, and the most entertaining people in Italy. The world's finest men's fashions, Italy's most celebrated popular songs and plays, and a high proportion of popular and operatic singers are all from Naples. Past Italian literary awards portray an amazingly high proportion of Neapolitans receiving the greatest honours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeapolitan creativity survived centuries of foreign occupation, widespread misery, the end of its role as a great capital city, repeated natural catastrophes, and terrible epidemics. What accounts for the creativity of Naples? The sorcerer Virgil is said to have created a Golden Egg, inside a crystal sphere, to save Naples from natural catastrophe. The egg, locked in an iron cage, was buried beneath a castle—still known as the \"Egg Castle\"—to maintain stability and to give eternal life to Naples. Michael A. Ledeen suggests some other surprising answers in a highly original exploration of Neapolitan life and death that ranges from religion to organized crime, war, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45576322023662,"sku":"9781412854795","price":77.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781412854795.jpg?v=1720969887","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/virgils-golden-egg-and-other-neapolitan-miracles-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}