Masters: Roman Fever

The use of the old world as toxic to that off the new is shown in Daisy Miller. The Roman fever and the predatorial Englishmen in the form of Mr Winterborn show that the naive can't survive in the jaded European continent. The question I have though is why in the European reflections on Italy (in works such as this and _Death in Venice_) it is always an expatriate in Italy falling in love with a vacationing family? Like in Highsmith's _The Talented Mr. Ripley_, it's always a vacation gone awry and this journey into the heart of the ancient always find something dreadfully wrong, but the Italains are hardly the villains. The sense of place here shows to corrupt the mild-mannered and cool-calm sen