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The devil on Earth. Journey by land and by sea from Rome to Jerusalem is a 2019 novel by Italian author Enrico Brizzi. This is the fourth novel focused on a journey on foot, in which the characters already appeared in Gli Psicoatleti, whose story lies chronologically after.

Text structure
The novel is divided into three chronologically ordered parts, each of which is preceded by a chapter entitled In the waters of the Otranto Canal set between the second and the third part.

Trama

In the waters of the Canal d'Otranto
The Gargantua, the boat on which the protagonist and his friends travel, is rocked by the waves during a storm in the Otranto Canal.

First part: Aria!
The narrator and his friend Cesare Maggi, called the Logista, depart from Rome along the Via Appia to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, walking along the earth's part of the route. The first overnight stay is in Frascati, the second in Palestrina, where the two walkers risk food poisoning. Along the course of Aniene are surprised by the appearance of some naked teenagers, who seem to want to bait them. Passing through Filettino, the country of Marshal Graziani, head towards the plain of Fucino, where many of the arms are extra-Community immigrants.

Besides Pescasseroli joins them a wild dog of the Maremma breed, who call Marley and with whom they begin to walk the Tratturo Regio. At the time of resuming the carriageway, fearing for the safety of the dog, they would like to lock him in the courtyard of a house apparently uninhabited to prevent him from following them further, but a woman who saw them from the inside hurts them by accusing them of wanting to abandon their dog; however, they move away quickly. In view of the village of Alfedena, they are greeted threateningly by two guard rottweilers to a scrap warehouse, which fortunately fail to escape the fence. They take a moment in a bar in the country, questioned by the children who remind them of the characters of Mafalda, and in the evening they receive the phone call of their friend Ivan Bugani, who assures them that they will reach them the next day in Isernia, despite being veteran chickenpox.

Bugani has a large amount of alcohol and inadequate clothing in the backpack; she also wears squash shoes, unsuitable for long walks. Tell his friends how dissatisfied his work in the petrochemical industry. In Bojano they stay in a very spartan inn but that serves good food. Before arriving in Benevento, when Ivan's feet are in bad condition, the three meet a woman who takes medicinal herbs (which reminds the storyteller of the Benedictine witches) and that relieves the sufferings of the Marche, which the next day departs by train to home.

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