Schettino has been in Meta di Sorrento near the Amalfi Coast since being released on house arrest last Tuesday.
As the audience enters, the diaphanous curtains onstage are gently blowing in the breezes of the Amalfi coast.
My grandmother is from Naples so I spent every summer of my childhood traveling between Capri, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast.
It was hardly twenty miles from Amalfi to Sorrento, but it took four hours to drive there.
The tragedy of the ruin of Amalfi is related by Petrarca, who was then living in Naples.
Beaches there are none, save at three or four points in the long distance to Amalfi; few fishermen dwell on this barren coast.
The ship had gone up abreast of Amalfi, and so close in as to be less than a mile from the shore.
It is here that Flavio Gioja dwelt, by whom, as is boasted at Amalfi, the mariner's compass was given to the world.
