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Ugo Cangemi was decrepit, but still practiced the profession of notary. His antics were now part of the history and legends of Granata. He had greeted the end of the Savoy monarchy, paying for fireworks himself. The mayor, a poor man like most, had accepted the gift and the harbor was the scene of the most spectacular party of the south, restored to its original greatness. He was still speaking about it a long time afterward.
“A game of fire, unforgettable. There were drunk people all over. And consider that the orchestra played Neapolitan songs… Ah, how happy my Queen would have been,” said the notary, while sighing, winking in the direction of the large picture of the King and Queen of Naples, which filled an entire wall of the studio, and where Maria Sofia of Bourbon, in hunting
