Trotta hails from Santa Maria Capua a Vetere, a town at the edge of Naples' urban sprawl.

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In the seventh century BC, when the slave revolt led by Spartacus was defeated, 6, 000 slaves were crucified and left dangling on crosses that lined the road from here to Capua, 132 miles away.

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