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Capri

Italian island at the southern entrance of the Bay of Naples; 32 km/20 mi south of Naples; area 13 sq km/5 sq mi; population (1987 est) 7,800. It has two towns, Capri and Anacapri, a profusion of flowers, beautiful scenery, and an ideal climate. The Blue Grotto on the north coast is an important tourist attraction.



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He began his career painting the island of Capri and the hidden byways of Venice in the 1870s and early 1880s.
As a young woman she moved to the Italian island of Capri, which had become a haven for gay and lesbian writers and painters escaping the antigay climate created by Oscar Wilde's imprisonment in Britain on sodomy charges in 1895.
The book begins with an introduction by Italian designer Valentino, who talks not only about her elegance but the fun they had running hand-in-hand through the streets to his villa on the island of Capri and how it made headlines.
 
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