Michael Ledeen: Virgil's Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles: An Investigation into the Sources of Creativity, Transaction Publ 2011
Many cities have great moments of creativity, and then lose it. Naples has survived centuries of foreign occupation, widespread misery on a grand scale, the end of its role as a great capital city, repeated natural catastrophes, and terrible epidemics – and it shows no signs of slowing down. What accounts for Naples? The sorcerer Virgil is said to have created a Golden Egg to save Naples from natural catastrophe. Michael Ledeen examines the legend of the egg – now locked in an iron cage and buried beneath the “Egg Castle” – to suggest some surprising answers in this highly original exploration of Neapolitan life, death, and creativity.
Michael A. Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, contributing editor to National Review Online, and a former advisor to U.S. secretary of state Alexander Haig and the U.S. Defense Department of the United States.
Christian Rocca Domenicale 16 ottobre 2011
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