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Brother Volcano, Sister City—Kagoshima
I don’t know when cities started pairing up as "sisters". I do know that in Italy it started in 1960 with the first such declaration of friendly kinship, that between ...
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Roman amphitheater in Naples
More news from Napoli Underground (NUG). Those Noble Noctivagators of the Neapolitan Netherworld, known by their NUG- handles as Fulvio and Ipogeo have done it again! The ...
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Ballet in Naples
The season program always reads “Opera and Ballet at San Carlo (year),” which reflects the fact that in Naples, as in most places in Italy, the ballet company is part of the ...
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The “Storia Patria Nostra” Library
My least favorite quote about books is from the Bible,
Ecclesisates 12:12
: “…of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh…”. It ...
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Remembrance of Things Past
Every generation, of course, has its own version of the "good old days." I was made painfully aware of that the other day when I heard a young woman complaining ...
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Palazzo Sirignano
No doubt it will be some time before residents of the Chiaia section of Naples start calling Palazzo Sirignano by its new name, the “Tirrenia” building, or something like ...
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Naples Miscellany 8 (early March 2008)
Art competition. Il Napoli al cuore is the name of an art competition recently on exhibit at the Maschio Angioino. Readers should note that the masculine definite article, ...
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Francesco Mastriani
Francesco Mastriani (1819-1891) was a journalist, playwright, and one of the most popular Neapolitan writers of the nineteenth century in the light literary style defined ...
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The Circumvesuviana Railway
As a point of interest, a portion of the Circumvesuviana railway line in Naples runs along the same stretch as did the first railway in Italy. That line was opened from Naples ...
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Giuseppe Marotta (1902-1963)
There is something of the cynical wit of Mark Twain in Giuseppe Marotta, a Neapolitan whose epigrams and “one-liners” have been extracted from his many writings to produce ...
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