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The Handwriting
on the Wall
Just a cursory stroll through the titles of articles about graffiti is enough to make you go and breathe paint fumes:
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Viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo
(conclusion)
Besides priming Naples for the great age of the Baroque, Don Pedro is widely remembered as the viceroy who tried to institute the Spanish Inquisition in Naples in 1547--and ...
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Viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo
(part 1 of 2)
Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo was born in 1484 near Salamanca in what was not yet the modern nation state of Spain. By the time of his death in 1553, not only did Spain exist, ...
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Finally
Neapolitan construction times are so slow that they are measured in "Cheops", one such unit being equal to the length of time it took to build that wondrous pyramid ...
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Farinelli
I had occasion the other day to see a film about one of the greatest singers of any epoch--Carlo Broschi, known as "Farinelli." He was widely regarded during his lifetime ...
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New Construction
on via Marina
One of the most blighted areas of Naples for many decades has been along via Marina, the east-west road that runs the length of the port of Naples from the passenger terminals ...
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Street Musicians in Naples
I don't know quite how to judge the observation I've heard recently that "there don't seem to be as many street musicians in Naples as elsewhere in Europe." In terms of ...
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San Pietro
This is the third in a series of oral history narratives about WW2 in southern Italy. This edited narrative is the result of interviews with Herman Chanowitz, former captain ...
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The Church of The Redeemer
It is not hard to find churches in Naples that are 500 years old. As a matter of fact, if you know where to look, you can find paleo-Christian places of worship that are ...
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The "Musical" in Naples
Although definitions of musical genres can get blurred, much of the time they do let us know what to expect. Thus, in Italian, "la lirica," means what in English is called ...
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