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Naples Declared

Author : Benjamin Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101589078
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Naples Declared written by Benjamin Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover, the good humor of a friend, and the wisdom of a seeker who has immersed himself in all aspects of this contrapuntal culture. His curiosity leads him to many byways, both real and metaphoric, and his passion for this ancient city and its people becomes, in his graceful prose and amusing anecdotes, irresistibly contagious.

In the Shadow of Vesuvius

Author : Jordan Lancaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857713531
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Vesuvius written by Jordan Lancaster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness are often associated with the city, which rests beneath active Mount Vesuvius and is the home of the Camorra - its version of the mafia. But beyond this, Naples reveals itself to be one of the most historically and culturally vibrant cities in Europe. From its origins in Homer's Odyssey and its founding nearly 3,000 years ago, Naples has long attracted travellers, artists and foreign rulers - from the visitors of The Grand Tour to Goethe, Nelson, Dickens and Neruda. The stunning beauty of its natural setting coupled with the charms of its colourful past and lively present - from the ruins of Pompeii to the glittering performances of the San Carlo opera house - continue to seduce all those who explore Naples today. In the Shadow of Vesuvius is a sparkling portrait of the city - the definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath its surface.

Modern Naples

Author : John Santore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Modern Naples written by John Santore and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources include narrative histories, travelers' accounts and diaries; urban descriptions and analyses; letters, newspaper and magazine articles; interviews and surveys; oral histories; official narrative, statistical reports and legislation; political oratory; fiction, poetry, music, urban planning, architecture, and the visual arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Medieval Naples

Author : Ronald G. Musto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599102467
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Naples written by Ronald G. Musto and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead Man in Naples

Author : Michael Pearce
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569476918
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Dead Man in Naples written by Michael Pearce and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Scampion, British consul in Naples, has been stabbed to death while bicycling through the piazza of the Porta Carmine. According to his sister, he had no enemies. The Neapolitan police suggest he was murdered by a bicycle-racing rival. In Naples, every mystery is attributed to the Camorra, a powerful criminal society; could its members be involved? Scampion enthusiastically backed the Italian invasion of Libya and befriended army officers of the newly formed Italian Bicycle Brigade. Now the Foreign Office in London has heard that international politics emanating from Rome might have been involved. Seymour of the Special Branch is sent to find out the motive for the murder and, incidentally, to identify the culprit. From the Hardcover edition.

Only in Naples

Author : Katherine Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812998162
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Only in Naples written by Katherine Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this ... memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law--and teach her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love"--

Baroque Naples

Author : Jeanne Chenault Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934977524
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Baroque Naples written by Jeanne Chenault Porter and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baroque Naples" presents documents on the history, culture, and art of the city during its golden age of prestige and prosperity under the Spanish Hapsburgs and Bourbons. Texts cover the history of the city and kingdom, contemporary travel guides, descriptions of the city's art, architecture and classical inheritance, its literature, music and theater. There are also chapters that offer texts by the famed Neapolitan economists, legal thinkers and philosophers of the age; a survey of religious thought, and of the Neapolitan contribution to the natural sciences. The selections are preceded by brief introductions to the writers and the ideas presented in the texts. Sixty-nine selections include Enrico Bacco, John Evelyn, Salvator Rosa, Luigi Vanvitelli, the Neapolitan Marinisti, Pietro Trapassi (Metastasio), Giovanni Battista Della Porta, Antonio Serra, Giuseppe Palmieri, Gaetano Filangieri, Tommaso Campanella, Giambattista Vico, Fynes Moryson and many others. The volume also includes brief biographies and chronologies. 60 illustrations, 3 maps, introduction, bibliography, index.

Street Fight in Naples

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408822326
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Street Fight in Naples written by Peter Robb and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentration of military power, lavish consumption, poverty and desperation. It was to Naples in 1606 that Michelangelo Merisi fled after a fatal street fight, and there released a great age in European art - until everything erupted in a revolt by the dispossessed, and the people of an occupied city brought Europe into the modern world. Ranging across nearly three thousand years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first Greek landings in Italy to the author's own, less auspicious, arrival thirty-something years ago, Street Fight in Naples brings vividly to life the tumultuous and, at times, tragic history of Naples.

Delirious Naples

Author : Pellegrino D'Acierno
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823280004
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Delirious Naples written by Pellegrino D'Acierno and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously Neapolitan” dance continues.

Ancient Naples

Author : Rabun M. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599102221
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Naples written by Rabun M. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on historical, literary, and archaeological sources, this volume provides a cultural, economic, material, and political history of the city of Naples, Italy from its beginnings as a Greek settlement in the eighth century BCE to the reign of the emperor Constantine in the fourth century CE"--

A Companion to Early Modern Naples

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251839
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Early Modern Naples written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples was one of the largest cities in early modern Europe, and for about two centuries the largest city in the global empire ruled by the kings of Spain. Its crowded and noisy streets, the height of its buildings, the number and wealth of its churches and palaces, the celebrated natural beauty of its location, the many antiquities scattered in its environs, the fiery volcano looming over it, the drama of its people’s devotions, the size and liveliness - to put it mildly - of its plebs, all made Naples renowned and at times notorious across Europe. The new essays in this volume aim to introduce this important, fascinating, and bewildering city to readers unfamiliar with its history. Contributors are: Tommaso Astarita, John Marino, Giovanni Muto, Vladimiro Valerio, Gaetano Sabatini, Aurelio Musi, Giulio Sodano, Carlos José Hernando Sánchez, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Gabriel Guarino, Giovanni Romeo, Peter Mazur, Angelantonio Spagnoletti, J. Nicholas Napoli, Gaetana Cantone, Anthony DelDonna, Sean Cocco, Melissa Calaresu, Nancy Canepa, David Gentilcore, Diana Carrió-Invernizzi, and Anna Maria Rao. The publisher, editor, and contributors mourn the passing of Gaetana Cantone, who died in April 2013.

Tuff City

Author : Nicholas T. Dines
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452797
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Tuff City written by Nicholas T. Dines and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.

Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Eloisa Dodero
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399100
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century written by Eloisa Dodero and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century Eloisa Dodero aims at documenting the history of numerous private collections formed in Naples during the 18th century, with particular concern for the “Neapolitan marbles” and the circumstances of their dispersal. Research has thus made it possible to formulate a synthesis of the collecting dynamics of Naples in the 18th century, to define the interest of the great European collectors, especially British, in the antiquities of the city and its territory and to draw up a catalogue which for the first time brings together the nucleus of sculptures reported in the Neapolitan collections or coming from irregular excavations, most of which shared the destiny of dispersal, in some cases here traced in definitive fashion.

Naples and the Campagna Felice

Author : Lewis Engelbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Naples and the Campagna Felice written by Lewis Engelbach and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Swamp of East Naples. Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb

Author : Valerio Caruso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912186211
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Swamp of East Naples. Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb written by Valerio Caruso and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Naples' contemporary history is not special, or unique: its processes shaped a mostly grey suburb nestled in the immediate vicinity of the great southern city, sharing its limits and feeding its needs. A case study with worldwide resonance, the book offers East Naples as emblematic of the deep environmental changes wrought on peripheral areas by processes of energy transitions, economic development and urbanisation. It interrogates modernity's distinctive global processes of industrialisation and deindustrialisation as enacted on an ancient natural landscape - Naples' former threshold of coastal and marshy ecosystems, now buried in the sedimentary accumulation of concrete, fumes and toxic chemicals unleashed by industrial and urban development. Caruso interrogates the human choices, the material context and the different perceptions of nature, health or production that led to these changes; and his book turns an environmentally-focused perspective on two of modernity's distinctive global processes: industrialisation and deindustrialisation. The volume reconstructs the discursive and physical factors that created the East Naples 'swamp', from the late eighteenth century to the present, through its transition from actual swamp to metaphorical, an ambiguous space characterised by chaos and disorder, hostility and risks, but also resistance, dignity and hope. It is a story both local and global, of 'hygienist' thought, urbanisation, industrialisation and deindustrialisation, ecological risk and attempted regeneration.

Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890

Author : Carol C. Mattusch
Publisher : Ngw-Stud Hist Art
ISBN 13 : 9780300189216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890 written by Carol C. Mattusch and published by Ngw-Stud Hist Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the symposium "Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The symposium was held January 30-31, 2009, in Washington.

The Ancient Shore

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226322017
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Shore written by Shirley Hazzard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. Battered by World War II, Naples would remain for decades one of the most violent and impoverished places in Italy, but in its passion, vivacity, and beauty, the city still justified the loving words written about it by Goethe, Byron, and other literary travelers over the centuries." "The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard's concern is primarily with the Naples of our own time - often violently unforgiving to innocent tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its rhythms and history."--BOOK JACKET.