HABITS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE OF NAPLES

In this text, published in 1880, which is a paradigmatic recapitulation the foundation myth of Naples, Giovanni Emanuele Bideri confirms the hypothesis that St. Patricia inherited the etiologic role of Parthenope.

Proving very clearly that the alternation between the saint and the siren was doxa populi . At least until the late nineteenth century, when this awareness fades. 

A "truth" that had once been shared, one of those that - as Ortega y Gasset said - everyone sees and that no one takes the trouble to explain .