The Gran Caffè Gambrinus in Naples: the family that runs it fought for nearly 30 years to regain the portion of the café that, in 1938, was converted into a bank after a high-ranking Fascist official asked the prefect to close it because the noise coming from the café—which was located beneath his home—disturbed his wife’s bridge game. With a touch of satire, Alberto Savinio, De Chirico’s brother, wrote in the weekly magazine Omnibus that “the air of Naples is fatal to fine cafés, just as roses are poisonous to donkeys” and the regime ordered the publication to be shut down as well. In 2001, the two parts of the Gambrinus were reunited, thus bringing together those splendid rooms that serve as an art gallery housing over 40 paintings by the greatest names in 19th-century Neapolitan painting.