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Charitable Events in the Villa Comunale A number of charitable organizations and local sponsors joined forces beginning the week of April 24 to bring to the grounds of the
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Verdi's Music for the King of Naples Giuseppe Verdi's life and art were dedicated to the cause of Italian unity. One of his early operas, Nabucco, contains the well-known choral hymn, Va pensiero sull'ali ...
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The Neapolitan Mandolin There are some musical instruments that it really sounds weird to say that you play them. (And, no, I don't intend to retract one iota of that convoluted syntax; it fits ...
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Giambattista della Porta or, Why am I so obsessed with overachievers? (See previous article on Fanzago!) One hundred years ago, the Neapolitan historian and philosopher, Benedetto Croce, wandered up to the hilly part of Naples, an area called the "high Vomero", specifically ...
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Cosimo Fanzago Confessions of a Buildaholic "Hello, my name is Cosimo. I'm a buildaholic."
"Hello, Cosimo."
"Say, did you fellows know that I built this very church we're meeting in ...
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Missing Conservatories (conclusion) 4. Santa Maria di Loreto was built in 1537 and was the original conservatory in Naples, coming at the beginning of the Spanish expansion of Naples under the ...
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Missing Conservatories I A tale involving the world's worst etymology The last part first. Many years ago, I saw the name of the church named Pietà dei Turchini (top photo, right) on via Medina in Naples. I let fall but a single powerful ...
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The Veterinary Hospital I first became aware of the existence of the University of Naples Department of Veterinary Medicine when little Mickey, the mutt pet of my friends Charley and Jeanne (yes, ...
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Air Raids on Naples in WWII Naples was the most bombed Italian city in WW2. It was struck for the first time on November 1, 1940, by RAF and Fleet Air Arm Bristol-Blenheim twin-engine light bombers (photo, ...
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The Museum of San Lorenzo They did it again: while I wasn't looking, another fine, small museum in Naples has opened. (The last one was the archaeological display at the Museo entrance to the new ...
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