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(4 Jan 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Naples, Italy - 13 December 2024 1. Various of ‘Cimitero delle Fontanelle’ (Fontanelle cemetery) interiors 2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Marino Niola, anthropologist: ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++ “The cult of the dead is the true religion of the Neapolitans, because it is not a transcendent religion, it is a religion that has to do with what remains of people, what remains even of our deceased loved ones, of the people we have lost; but not only

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