Even those intimately familiar with Capri will be astonished by all the insights in this, just published illustrated coffe-table book.
Capri is a myth, a yearning, embodied romanticism, playground of the rich and famous, refuge for artists and bon vivants of many a century – a microcosm of contrasts.We are taken on an extraordinary journey through the island by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr, the masterful pictures of Umberto D'Aniello, a resident Caprese and the tales and descriptions of writer Claretta Cerio, native of Capri, forming a homage to arguably the most beautiful island in the world. This illustrated book shows all its facets, contrasts and singular beauty. Its nature, the castles in the sky built by eccentrics, the disparate worlds of Capri and Anacapri, luxury and jet set and even belief and superstition. An excerpt is on the preceding pages.
