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A. Scarfoglio & The Great Race of 1908 Antonio Scarfoglio (1886-1969) was the son of Edoardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao, both well-known Neapolitan writers of the turn of the century and founders of il Mattino, ...
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Mario Maglione I had the pleasure some time ago of sitting in the very historic setting of the Palazzo Doria d'Angri (the building where Garibaldi strode out onto the balcony in 1860 to ...
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Films set in Naples What follows is certainly not an exhaustive list. I have simply listed 18 films that I have seen and consider worthwhile for one reason or another. That is, if I were to ...
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The First Neapolitan Republic When one thinks of "Neapolitan Republic," the mind quickly turns to 1799 and the Republican outgrowth in Naples of the French Revolution, a drama starring Lady Hamilton, ...
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Naples in the 1600s It was the best of times, It was worse than the worst of times The decline of the Spanish Empire from the loss of the Armada (1588) through the entire 1600s to its ultimate demise in 1700 with the death of Charles II is complex. Some ...
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"You leave the Mergellina Station..." (Sorry. I can't help myself.) The history of efforts to give the city of Naples a good, modern underground train system--called a Metropolitana--is long and complicated. It starts with the first ...
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Eureka! Exhibit at the National Museum In De Architectura (known in English as The Ten Books of Architecture) Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio has given us the famous "Eureka" story having ...
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Palazzo Ricca The Historical Archives of the Bank of Naples Palazzo Ricca is located at via Tribunale 213. The story goes that in the late 1500s some lawyers loitering on the stairs of Palazzo Capuano, the Hall of Justice cum ...
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The Royal Poorhouse In Buddhist lore, a white elephant is said to have revealed to the mother of the Buddha that she was going to give birth to the Enlightened One. Thus, in many parts of Asia, ...
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Boccaccio, Rufolo, Wagner, Ravello 2005 & the World's Loudest Trombone Section In his Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted an entire tale (Second Day, Tale Four) to the adventures of one Landolfo Rufolo, a contemporary of his from ...
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