"Sal Da Vinci's Naples today, like Mario Merola's Naples yesterday, represents a stereotype that has little to do with Neapolitan culture. It is a heart-wrenching, emphatic, consolatory attitude: love forever, I promise you before God... It seems to me to be a step backwards not only compared to Quanno chiove, but also compared to Nel blu dipinto di blu. Modugno was from Puglia, even though he was considered Sicilian, but he was still an artist from the South; and the song with which he won Sanremo in 1958 was very popular and very modern. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about Sal Da Vinci."
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Aldo Cazzullo, quoted in Sal Da Vinci è la Napoli che vorrebbe chi detesta Napoli, corriere.it, 5 March 2026.
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