Capri

Island of Pleasure

James Money

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2012
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571297832
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The air of Capri has had an extraordinary effect on many remarkable people down the centuries - as if the island had come to the collective decision that it was made for pleasure, a commodity that foreign visitors have always found there in spades.

It was on Capri that the Emperor Tiberius built a palace where he 'gave vent to all the vices' that he hadn't been able to indulge in Rome. In the nervous days following the trial of Oscar Wilde, English homosexuals found Capri a perfect haven. And in 1919 one Capri resident even remarked on the necessity of swathing her two dogs in chastity belts...

James Money's Capri, first published in 1986, is the first full social history of the island: a rambunctious tale that boasts a vivid cast of characters, usually found in various states of congress.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Introduction
• CHAPTER ONE : 2,000 Years of Foreign Rule
• CHAPTER TWO : The First Foreign Residents
• CHAPTER THREE : The Gay ’Nineties
• CHAPTER FOUR : Heyday of the Foreign Colony
• CHAPTER FIVE : Maksim Gorki and Compton Mackenzie
• CHAPTER SIX : World War I
• CHAPTER SEVEN : The Post-war Pursuit of Pleasure
• CHAPTER EIGHT : Prosperity under Fascism
• CHAPTER NINE : World War II
• CHAPTER TEN : Post-war Boom
• CHAPTER ELEVEN : Reflections on the Last Thirty-five Years
• APPENDIX A : Identities of characters and places described in Compton Mackenzie’s ‘Vestal Fire’ and ‘Extraordinary Women’
• APPENDIX B : Administrators of Capri and Anacapri
• Sources and Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright