Crossed eyes: the South seen from the North, the North seen from the South

Boccaccio, Fucini, Bocca: all those who wrote about Naples described it as a loci-is terribilis, inhabited by wild and violent beings. To every intellectual from the South, instead, all northern towns an Milan in particular appear as guardians of order and well being. Here they found a kind of order which is missing in their native homeland. However, such an attitude may be reversed, as happens with Rea and Ortese, for whom Milan is a symbol of contemporary alienation. Only literature can give an answer. Brancati's Don Giovanni in Sicilia can be cited as a significant example of a new space where northern rationality and southern confusion may coexist.