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The Bearded Lady of Naples
Once upon a time, I commented quite innocently and to all assembled, that a woman visitor in our home had a moustache. (As I recall, it wasn't a big groomed walrus affair ...
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Naples Miscellaneous 13 (mid/late June 2009)
—Piracy on the coast! Yesterday (June 19) at 8 p.m. there was still enough pleasant light and view for a 37-foot Manò Marine cabin cruiser (of the kind in the photo) with ...
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Michelangelo at S. M. Donna Regina
A recently discovered wooden sculpture of
The Crucified Christ
, authenticated as being from the year 1495 and the work of the young Michelangelo is on display through ...
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Napoletani a Milano
"Neapolitans in Milan" is a comedy in the classical sense that it has a happy ending and, indeed, a number of scenes that make you laugh. Other than that, it is ...
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Villa Belvedere
A great number of named villas were built in Naples from the 1500s through the early 1900s. They were purposely built outside the crowded urban nucleus of the city and usually ...
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Fighting for Two Souths
I’ve come across a local website by a southern Italian gentleman who says that his great-great grandfather left Italy to fight for the south in the US Civil War and who returned ...
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Of Monkey-Men and Nestor's Cup
Some time ago, M., a dear friend and art historian, wrote me:
"You probably know that the first instance of Greek language on an object was found in the Greek ...
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The Sanità area of Naples
If you stand at the west end of the National Museum, you are at the northwest corner of the city of Naples as it existed in the mid-1500s after the great Spanish rebuilding ...
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Recent eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius
The people who built the houses you see on the slopes of Vesuvius (top photo) are obviously optimists, for the question is always, “Isn’t it about time?” (Of course, you never ...
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San Leonardo, the small church that is no more
Arthur Hamilton Norway (1859-1938) was a British civil servant and writer. He was an eclectic author who wrote everything from the obscure
History of the Post-Office Packet ...
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