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Italy, 1899: Fiery-tempered, seductive medium Alessandra Poverelli levitates a table at a Spiritualist séance in Naples. A reporter photographs the magic, and prosperous, skeptical psychiatrist Camillo Lombardi will come in Naples to investigate. When she materializes the ghost of his deceased mother, he hazards his reputation and bundle of money to financing a travel of the Continent, challenging the medical and academic elite of Europe to check Alessandra's mysterious capabilities. She'll help him rewrite technology. His fee can help her escape her sadistic spouse, Pigotti, and begin a new life in Rome. Newspapers across Europe trumpet her Cinderella report and baffling successes, and the public demands to learn: Does the "Queen of Spirits" really have supernatural capabilities? Nigel Huxley is persuaded that she's simply another vulgar Italian trickster. The icy, aristocratic detective for England's Modern culture for the Exploration of Mediums launches a plot to trap and expose her. Encouraged by the true-life report of famous Italian medium Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918), The Witch of Napoli masterfully resurrects the bitter 19th-century struggle between technology and religion over the possibility of afterlife.
