In Capri, love of nature and lust for shopping

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: July 25, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Aric Chen
International Herald Tribune
07-25-2005
Few specks of land yield as much romance as Capri, the fabled island that rises like a mirage from the Bay of Naples, just off the Sorrento peninsula of southern Italy. It is here that some say Odysseus resisted the seductive but deadly song of the Sirens, and the Roman Emperor Tiberius caroused in orgiastic debauchery. The Russian novelist Gorki lived in exile on Capri, as did the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose stay in the early 1950s inspired the film ''Il Postino.'' Later, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis stopped by while on the yacht ...

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