The southern urban aggregate, in particular the House in the historic center of Salerno - Oil on canvas, cm. 99.5 x 81 Early Seventies, are elements that often recur in the works of foreign artists who arrived on the Amalfi coast at the beginning of the twentieth century. The white Mediterranean house, morphologically comfortable and functional, suggested a safe harbor sheltered from the eyes of others, suitable for combining privacy and contact with the intense spectacles of nature. In this work, which depicts the typical architecture of the historic center of Salerno, Theile shows that he has arrived at a personal style, which will find its natural development in his more mature production. The painting develops, on four levels, a succession of round arches, pointed with cross vaults, culminating in a simple railing relative to a view of an equally vaulted space. Finally, the painting, where the only sign of life is represented by a garment hanging out to dry, a sign of a practice permitted by the happy climatic conditions of the South, offers the dual possibility of reading an inside and an outside and we wonder whether the artist wants to underline only an outside or suggest an inside.