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The legend of the impossible love between Posillipo and Nisida

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GLOSSARY
Fell in love: si innamorò
Countryside: di campagna
Whose: la cui
Outstanding: eccezionale
Soul: anima
Mean: meschina

The writer, in her book “Neapolitan Legends”, imagined that Posillipo was once a young, sweet and sensible boy. The boy fell in love with a countryside girl, Nisida, whose beauty was outstanding, but whose soul was cold, insensible and mean.

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Pain: dolore
Unbearable: insopportabile

The young Posillipo fell in love with this girl, but she didn't fall in love with him, and his pain was so unbearable that he killed himself.

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Both of them: entrambi
Hill: collina
Intended: destinato

But Fate decided to transform both of them into two natural and separate entities. So, the young boy became the hill of Posillipo, intended to welcome visitors thanks to its beauty.

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Place: luogo
Sadness: tristezza
Indeed: infatti
Juvenile Detention Center: centro di detenzione minorile

The girl became the isle of Nisida, destined to become a place of prisony, evil and sadness: indeed, on this isle there is the Juvenile Detention Center. This is the legend of Posillipo and Nisida, destined to an impossible love.

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Love without reciprocation is the worst torture a human can experience.

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Loved by Posillipo, Nisida doesn't reciprocate his love. The love

Of Posillipo and Nisida made Posillipo suffer a lot until he killed himself. The

Vicious fate decided to transform both of them into two natural and separate entities. The young boy became the hill of Posillipo. The girl became the isle of Nisida, destined to become a place of prisony,

Evil and sadness: indeed, on this isle there is the Juvenile Detention Center.