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39 unusual facts about Naples


Ascanio Mayone

He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602.

Baius

Baios (Βάϊος), Odysseus' helmsman, according to tradition buried in a bay near Naples that was named after him Baiae.

Bernardino Realino

Subsequently he entered the service of Francesco Ferdinando d'Avalos, viceroy of Sicily, and moved to Naples, where he decided to embark on a religious career and joined the Jesuits.

Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate

The Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate (said Bùvero in Neapolitan) is a neighborhood in Naples, Italy.

Boris Christoff

In following years Christoff appeared in a number of roles at Milan's La Scala, Venice's La Fenice, the Rome Opera, Covent Garden in London, the opera theatres in Naples, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, etc.

Caterina Gabrielli

In 1767, she created the role of Argene in Josef Mysliveček's opera Il Bellerofonte at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, thereby helping the composer break through to the upper echelon of operatic masters in Italy.

Cornelio Fabro

For the period of summer-fall 1935 Fabro was on scholarship at the «Stazione Zoologica» of Naples.

Dalbergia melanoxylon

Small growers in Naples, Florida have been successful in growing African blackwood there.

Duilio Poggiolini

At the time of his arrest over 15 billion lire in an account in Switzerland was seized registered to his wife, Maria Di Pierr Poggiolini: In addition to a house in Naples, the couple had several billion francs in gold ingots, jewels, paintings and ancient and modern coins (including gold Tsar Nicholas II rubles and South African Krugerrand).

Economy of Naples

Naples is Italy's fourth most important city for economic strength, coming after Milan, Rome and Turin.

Edward Foote

A French invasion of the Kingdom of Naples had overthrown the Neapolitan government and erected the Parthenopean Republic instead, run by disaffected Neapolitans.

Enzo de Muro Lomanto

Born Vincenzo De Muro, he studied in Naples, adding "Lomanto" to his name to avoid confusion with another tenor, Bernardo De Muro.

Fourth Municipality of Naples

The Fourth Municipality (In Italian: Quarta Municipalità or Municipalità 4) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Francesco Caracciolo

The local port of St. Lucia nevertheless took care of Caracciolo's remains, giving him a proper funeral and burial at church of Santa Maria della Catena.

Francesco Feo

Feo retired from teaching, but continued to compose sacred music for Neapolitan churches, including the Santissima Annunziata Maggiore, where he become maestro di cappella in 1726.

French's

In 1970, the company purchased Widmer Wine Cellars of Naples, New York.

Friedrich Dehnhardt

Dehnhardt's grave is located in the English Cemetery in Naples.

Giovanni Battista Nauclerio

He also helped the main altar for the church of San Diego all'Ospedaletto, the baldacchino in San Pietro ad Aram, and likely aided in the restructuring of Santi Bernardo e Margherita and the church of Santa Maria di Caravaggio.

Giovanni Maria Trabaci

On 1 December 1594 he was appointed tenor at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore in Naples, but already in 1597 he must have been known as an organist and organ expert, because he was invited that year to test the organ of Oratorio dei Filippini.

Italy national cricket team

The earliest mention of cricket in Italy is of a match played by Admiral Nelson's sailors in Naples in 1793.

Joseph E. Persico

Following graduation he joined the U.S. Navy where he served as a Lieutenant Junior Grade aboard a minesweeper and also worked at NATO Headquarters Naples, Italy.

Key Waden

Key Waden is a small barrier island between Naples and Marco Island, Florida, United States.

Ludovico Sabbatini

He was ordained a priest at age 24 and soon began to teach at the religious academies of San Giorgio Maggiore and Santa Maria ai Monte.

Mergellina

Mergellina is a coastal section of the city of Naples, Italy.

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A main square, one block from the harbor, faces the church of Santa Maria del Parto with his elaborate tomb.

Naples, Idaho

The name derives from the area in Italy which was home to many of the laborers who helped build the first rail line through the region around 1890.

Ninth Municipality of Naples

The Ninth Municipality (In Italian: Nona Municipalità or Municipalità 9) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Operation Baytown

German commander Albrecht Kesselring and his staff did not believe the Calabria landing was the main Allied attack, which they expected at Salerno, or possibly north of Naples, or even near Rome.

Piazza dei Martiri, Naples

Piazza dei Martiri (in Italian: Martyrs' Square) is a monument square in Naples, Italy, located one block north of the eastern end of the large seaside park known as the Villa Comunale.

Piazza del Plebiscito

Located very closely to the gulf of Naples, it is bounded on the east by the Royal Palace and on the west by the church of San Francesco di Paola with colonnades extending to both sides.

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Ferdinand I continued the construction but converted the finished product into the church one sees today.

Second Municipality of Naples

In its territory there are located the port and the central railway station.

Seventh Municipality of Naples

The Seventh Municipality (In Italian: Settima Municipalità or Municipalità 7) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

St. Elizabeth Seton School Naples Florida

Elizabeth Seton Catholic School (often abbreviated to SES) is a co-educational parish private, Roman Catholic elementary and middle school in Naples, Florida.

Teatro di San Carlo

It is located adjacent to the central Piazza del Plebiscito, and connected to the Royal Palace.

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Caffarelli, Farinelli, and Gizziello were products of the local conservatories of Naples

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The opera house was commissioned by the Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples (Carlo VII in Italian).

Third Municipality of Naples

The Third Municipality (In Italian: Terza Municipalità or Municipalità 3) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Ugo Savarese

Ugo Savarese (December 2, 1912, Naples - December 19, 1997, Genoa) was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.


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There were also protests in Argentine embassies and consulates in cities such as New York, Miami, Madrid, Sydney, Bogotá, Santiago de Chile, Naples, Zurich and Barcelona, among others.

Achille Vertunni

Later in life, he was named cavaliere della Corona d'Italia, and honorary professor of the Instituto di Belle Arti of Naples and of the Brera Academy of Milan.

Alex Corbisiero

Born 30 August 1988, Alexander Corbisiero is the great grandson of Riccardo Corbisiero, who emigrated from Naples to the United States in 1923 and established Riccardo's – a restaurant well known for its continental cuisine – in Astoria, Queens in the early 1950s.

Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria

For instance, a collection of monodies by Pietro Antonio Giramo, entitled Hospedale degli Infermi d'amore, was dedicated to Anna in Naples in the mid-seventeenth century (the specific date is unknown); it humorously presented the various forms of insanity caused by love.

Avigliano, Basilicata

Later it was expanded by the Normans and was a hunter mansion for Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and a summer residence for the Angevine kings of Naples.

Bresso

At the 2001 census the municipality had a population of 27,132 inhabitants and a population density of 8,027.2 persons/km², making it the most densely populated comune in Italy outside the Province of Naples (although it was only seventh overall, behind Portici, Casavatore, San Giorgio a Cremano, Melito di Napoli, Naples, and Arzano).

Carlo Munier

In this period he performed at several concerts in Naples and published his first compositions, arrangements of La Traviata and I Puritani for two mandolins, mandola and piano, dedicating the last one to the Queen of Italy.

Casalnuovo

Casalnuovo di Napoli, a municipality of the Province of Naples, Campania

Cave, Lazio

It is especially known for the Treaty of Cave, signed on September 12, 1557 by plenipotentiaries of Pope Paul IV and Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples.

Christophe Rousset

Christophe Rousset also has a career as guest conductor (Liceu Barcelona, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera of Wallonia, Orquesta Nacional de España, among other orchestras) as well as the active pursuit of musical research, producing critical editions and the publication by Actes Sud of a study on Rameau in 2007.

Emanuele Tovo

He completed portraits, in miniature on ivory, of Vittorio Emanuele II, King Umberto I, Queen Margherita, Princess Elisabetta, Duchess of Genoa, and Prince of Naples.

Emilia of Gaeta

In 1027, when Duke Sergius IV was forced to flee Naples, Emilia gave him refuge, for John V was his nephew.

Faiano

Nearest motorway exits are "Pontecagnano" and "Montecorvino Pugliano" on the A3 Motorway Naples-Salerno-Cosenza-Reggio Calabria.

Flavio Gioja

Flavio Gioia's birthplace is alternately given as Amalfi, Positano, Naples, or ultimately, Gioia, a town in Puglia, hence the derivation of the reputed surname.

Francesco Amico

For twenty-four years he was professor of theology at Naples, Aquila, and Gratz, and, for five years, chancellor in the academy of the last-named place.

Francesco Netti

He was knighted in the Order of the Crown of Italy, and in 1868, he was awarded the Order of Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro; and finally in 1876, became honorary professor at the Institute of Fine Arts of Naples.

Geoffrey of Trani

He was a student at Bologna of Azo before becoming a professor at Naples, then at Bologna.

Giovacchino Toma

Among other major works include Il torturato dall' inquisizione, exhibited at Paris; Clemente VII che nasconde le gioie del Vaticano, exhibited at the Promotrice of Naples; La guardia alla rota dei trovatelli, bought by the Ministry of Public Education; Le orfane, awarded in Naples; La messa in casa, acquired by the City of Naples; l'onomastico della maestra, donated to the Academy of Naples; and the Luisa Sanfelice in carcere, reproduced in the Illustrazione Italiana.

Giovanni Schmidt

He and Andrea Leone Tottola were the two librettists who dominated theatrical life in Naples in the first quarter of the 19th century.

Giuseppe Aprile

He later became a singing instructor in Naples, where Domenico Cimarosa, Michael Kelly and Emma, Lady Hamilton were among his pupils.

Giuseppe Wilson

He was born in Darlington to a Neapolitan woman Lina Di Francesca and Dennis Wilson, a Briton who worked as an iron and steel worker at the local factory, but had met Lina while serving with the British Army.

Hamilton Bible

The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

History of U.S. Puteolana

A club originally founded in 1975 in the Province of Caserta but had moved to Ponticelli in Naples, moved again in 1986 to Pozzuoli as a means to carry on the older clubs legacy in the city.

International College

Hodges University (formerly known as International College,) in Naples, Florida

Italian Marxist–Leninist Party

Many cells were created, among them the "J. Stalin" (Forlì), "Red Vesuvio" (Naples), "Mao Zedong" (Milan) and "Mao" (Enna) have headquarters.

John Frederick Bateman

He carried out projects abroad as well, including designing and constructing a drainage and water supply system for Buenos Aires, and water supply schemes for Naples, Constantinople and Colombo.

John Thomas Jones

From Naples the troops sailed for Sicily, and, on the dethronement of the king, garrisoned Messina and Melazzo.

Joseph August Knip

At the end of 1809 he went to Rome, where he remained until 1812; he also travelled, to Naples, the Sabine Hills, the Alban Hills, and the Campagna.

Langobardia Minor

So became subject to the two duchies the entire Adriatic coast between Byzantine strongholds of Ancona in the north and Otranto in the south; the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian, however, only partially fell under the authority of the duke of Benevento, which was never able to permanently occupy Naples, the Salento and the tip of Calabria (south of Cosenza and Crotone), and of course, Rome and its suburbs.

Marietta Marcolini

She subsequently sang in Naples, Livorno, Pisa, Rome and Milan, singing in the premieres of Pietro Carlo Guglielmi's La serva bizzarra (Naples 1803), Giacomo Tritto's Andromaca e Pirro (Rome 1807), Giuseppe Nicolini's Traiano in Dacia (Rome 1807), Carlo Bigatti's L'amante prigioniero (Milan 1809) and Ercole Paganini's Le rivale generose (Milan 1809).

Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party

The party is based in Forio, a commune of 14,536 inhabitants in the province in Naples, situated on the island of Ischia.

Matteis

Most Matteis families now reside in the southern part near Naples in a town called Avellino.

Naples, Maine

Automobile tourists began arriving after designation of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway in 1919 (identified as United States Route 302 since 1935).

Niccolò Antonio Colantonio

His paintings show the mingling of several cultures, as Alfonso V of Aragon had brought to Naples artists from Iberia, including the Valencian Jacomart, Burgundy, Provence, and Flanders.

Paul Langerhans

In search of a cure, he travelled to Naples, Palermo, the island of Capri, and underwent treatments at Davos and Silvaplana in Switzerland, but all in vain: he was forced to apply for release from his university duties.

Pizza in the United States

New York-style pizza is a style originally developed in New York City by immigrants from Naples, where pizza was created.

Political economy

The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (then capital city of the Kingdom of Naples); the Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured professor; in 1763, Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Rai Radio FD 5

Radio FD 5, unlike its sister channel Radio FD 4, can also be heard on FM in five Italian cities: Rome (on 100.3 MHz), Turin (101.8), Milan (102.2), Naples (103.9), and Ancona (106.0).

Southern Italy

At his death in 1458, the kingdom was again separated and Naples was inherited by Ferrante, Alfonso's illegitimate son.

Transfer of panel paintings

The practice evolved in Naples and Cremona in 1711-25, and reached France by the middle of the eighteenth century.

Trent Campbell

While on a road trip to play the Florida Everblades, Campbell was arrested for Grand Theft Auto by Collier County Sheriff's officers after he allegedly stole a taxi outside an upscale Naples, Florida bar.

Vincenzo Migliaro

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.

Virgin of the Rocks

In her 1967 book (published in English in 1985) Angela Ottino della Chiesa cites four paintings derived to some degree from The Virgin of the Rocks: the Holy Family and St. John by Bernardino Luini in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Thuelin Madonna by Marco d'Oggiono in the Thuelin collection in Paris and the Holy Infants Embracing by Joos van Cleve in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.

Z. Z. Hill

Born in Naples, Texas, United States, Hill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas.