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With Your Inner Tile When I first learned the Italian word for "tile" --"mattonella"-- it seemed to me to be an enchanting name for a woman. After all, it resembles closely the name "Antonella," ...
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The "Orientale" of Naples The other university When you say "University of Naples," most hear that as a reference to the "Frederick II" university, the institution founded by and named for that great Holy Roman emperor. ...
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Is it already Christmas? It's hard to believe that it's that time of year again. That's because it's NOT! It's only November 16. Think of all the great November 16 celebrations we used to have before ...
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Caravaggio,
the Last Years, 1606-10 Exhibit at Capodimonte I think the reason I almost never go to art shows can be traced back many, many years to an episode that gave me an inferiority complex about such things. I had been dragged ...
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"Long Sellers" ?...
Well, if they say so... or Is This How Latin Died? According to Mark Twain, a bad translation was the reason his story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was a flop in France. He even translated the French ...
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Achille Lauro Foreigners familiar with the name "Achille Lauro" generally know it as the name of an ill-fated ship. The keel was laid in 1939 in the Netherlands, but the ship was not launched ...
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Napoli Soccer—from A to C If you are not interested in Italian soccer, go read something else. As of the current week (Oct. 18), Naples is in the middle of the standings in the lowly C-league and is ...
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The Vesuvius Meteorological Observatory The observatory —now, officially, the Vesuvius Observatory, Naples Section of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology— is quite visible on the western slopes ...
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The Hospital
for the "Incurable" Charles VIII of France invaded Naples in the late 1490's. This attempt to take over southern Italy failed, and he was sent packing back to France. The kingdom of Naples then ...
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The ex-Military Hospital ex-Convent of the Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity In a tour guide to Naples published in 1700 (Napoli Cittŕ Nobilissima, Antica e Fedelissima, Esposta a gli Occhi et alla Mente de’ Curiosi, diviso in due Parti - Stamperia ...
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