The Gallery (1947) was a highly successful novel by John Horne Burns, based on his experiences in the American Army of Occupation in Naples in 1944.

In 1951 I and a fellow graduate student at Harvard, Eloise Knapp, briefly considered writing a musical based on the book. The project was soon abandoned. This is one of the few surviving fragments of the prospective score. It was intended to be sung by a group of scugnizzi (Neapolitan street urchins) to an Americn soldier, while a nearby Neapolitan singer sings "O Sole Mio".