"Neapol sweet as salt": Name? Dropped

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In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the number of abandoned recently born in Italy was the largest in history. In Milan, between 1791 and 1800, 1591 children were abandoned annually (on average) in Turin at the same time – 512, in Naples – 2378. In the capital of Campania, the phenomenon was like a disaster.