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Naples pour passion: Chefs d'oeuvre de la collection De Vito. Chypre or the future sword ofThe book opens with a presentation by Giuseppe De Vito, an enlightened amateur but also a self taught art historian, and with the story of the constitution of the collection and its critical reception. This introduction is followed by a catalogue listing the forty or so works on display. Each of the four parts consists of an essay by a specialist and around ten notes on individual works. The first analyses the lasting influence of Caravaggio's