Capri - these are ten square kilometers in the Mediterranean that mean the world. Once the center of the Roman Empire under Emperor Tiberius, then impoverished and forgotten, Capri rose to become the first European tourist island with the discovery of the Blue Grotto. Today, it is a luxury destination and dream locale, a brand and a myth. Capri embodies the magic of the island like no other: a Robinson Crusoe island and an island of Utopia, an island of the dead, an island of love, and a New World. Capri is the island of islands. Dieter Richter paints a portrait of the "most beautiful island in the world," its landscape, its history, and above all, the people who have visited and lived there: adventurers and revolutionaries, artists, writers, and philosophers, refugees and emigrants from the world's dictatorships. The author has uncovered numerous unknown and unusual sources, including gravestones.