Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is among the leading exponents of the European decadentism<\/strong> of the late ‘800. Sobbing, controversial, prone to provocation, he had to serve a criminal conviction for offenses against morals.<\/p>\n Released from the prison of Reading in 1979, he sheltered in Naples with Lord Alfred Douglas hiding under a false name with the intention of finding peace in that place, Posillipo<\/strong>, whose name in Greek means “respite from danger”. Here, in fact, the two took shelter staying in Naples until March 1989.<\/p>\n While trying to keep a low profile, the great Irish writer could not help but attend the most famous caf\u00e9 in the city,<\/strong> the Gran Caff\u00e8 Gambrinus, to relive the splendor of that beautiful world of which he had been the undisputed protagonist.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A TRUTH FROM THINGS Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is among the leading exponents of the European decadentism of the late ‘800. Sobbing, controversial, prone to provocation, he had to serve a criminal conviction for offenses against morals. Released from the prison of Reading in 1979, he sheltered in Naples with Lord Alfred Douglas hiding under a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intellectuals-and-artists","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n