the internet and the Mezzogiorno — The New Atlantis

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Auden on Ischia, by George Daniell From the late 1940s to the late 1950s, W. H. Auden spent part of each year on the Island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. When he bought a small house in Austria and left Italy, he wrote a lovely and funny poem called “Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno” in which he reflected on how he, as the child of a “potato, beer-or-whiskey / Guilt culture,” never became anything more than a stranger in southern Italy. As he thinks about the people of that region, he wonders if, despite the liveliness of the culture