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The Bourbon Tunnel—or— "Quick, your majesty! Into the sewer!" It sounds like something out of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel: the swish and rustle of ballroom finery, swordplay and ...
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Polo della Qualitŕ—A Glocal Village I had not heard "glocal" before. I was sure it was another Italian invention in English— something like the monstrous "beauty farm." (But we have an agreement: ...
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No noir is good noir If you like your films dark and seamy, your heroes cynical, your femmes fatal, your lighting low-key, your camera work shaky—if you like violence, sex, moral ambiguity, tarnished ...
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Ferdinando Fuga (1699—1782) I cheerfully note that the great architect, Ferdinando Fuga, and I have the same birthday! Onward. A note on Fuga in the authoritative article in the Grove Encyclopedia of ...
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Pz.D—Doctor of Pizza, summa cum fungis Scholars of world literature will recall that in Faust, Goethe's protagonist laments that even though he has studied philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, he felt ...
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The 366 Trenches By most accounts, Charles III of Bourbon, who ruled the Kingdom of Naples from 1734 to 1759, was an "enlightened monarch." He didn't just build opera houses and ...
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The Hills are Alive… …with the Sound of Metros. (Please don't write me. I know the spelling is different; I'm just hard up for clever titles for articles about trains.) When they started construction ...
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Eight Statues, Eight sculptors One of the most visited points in Naples is Piazza Plebiscito, the large public square bounded on opposite sides by the Royal Palace and the great church of San Francesco ...
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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (1678-1745) "Say, isn't he the same guy who did…?" In Naples, the answer to that question is usually "yes." There is always some "same guy who did…". ...
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Miscellaneous churches These churches were certainly not "miscellaneous" to the people who built them, nor to those who have frequented them over the centuries in Naples. It's just that ...
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