It's literally raining stars in Naples. Social media is flooded with such clips, one even shows celebrating Nepolitans ‘driving’ an illuminated boat through the city’s streets. It could well be a scene from Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino’s 2021 growing up film which is abundant with such allegories about the city. Because that’s what it is all about, a city’s coming of age, like Naples’ own late on Thursday, once again after 33 long years.
When it had last happened, or probably the first time in 1986-87, they thronged the local cemetery telling their dead that they did not know what they had missed. This time, they knew who they would be invoking.
