A great Neapolitan journalist and historian describes the incoparably authentic talent of the people - born of need, inspiration and genius - and beautiful city, both overwhelming and enthralling. Naples is everything - the most worldly and unworldly of city, the most cultivated and the most ignorant. A metropolis endowed with juridical exertise and devastated by illegality. An ancient city, even older than Rome, and at the same time the most modern, as modern as New York or Hong Kong. The number of dandies, aristocrats, elegant eand refined people almost equals the quantity of "furfantelli".