Maria Senese
The gallant coffee, as was called by Elsa Morante, owner of the International Bar of Forio, populated especially in the years 1945/1960 by celebrated personalities (Italians and foreigners artists and writers) who used to stay in Ischia. She was inspired by the poet W. Auden for the character of Baba the Turk by Stravinsky, also in a poem entitled The International Bar concludes: