In the early 1700s the eastern limit of the city of Naples was an actual wall, more or less where the red belfry of the church of the Carmine and the ruins of the old Carmine fortress still stand ...

The Beautiful Lady Craven is the title of the edited and annotated memoirs of Elizabeth Craven (née Lady Elizabeth Berkeley) (1750 - 1828), English author, playwright, traveller, and socialite, best ...

The origins of the guitar are beyond the scope of this article, but it is fair to say that by the time the Spanish opened the first music conservatories in the mid-1500s in their vice-realm of Naples, ...

The first informed archaeological efforts to uncover the ancient Greco-Roman history of this part of Italy were made by the Bourbons. The most interesting part of this map is probably the location of ...

In English, "votive" refers to something done—in this case, something built— in fulfillment of a vow, and an "aedicula" (from the Latin diminutive of aedes, dwelling) is a small structure sheltering ...

The only structure vaguely recognizable today on the 1633 Stopendael map (second photo, right) of the port of Naples is the large Maschio Angioino (in the upper left quadrant of the map), the fortress ...

Our beautiful city of Naples is so rich in history that Stendhal thought it was the only place (together with Paris) that might claim to be the "capital" of Europe. Between myth and reality, Naples is ...

I first became aware of the existence of the University of Naples Department of Veterinary Medicine when little Mickey, the mutt pet of my friends Charley and Jeanne (yes, the very same pooch that ...

Sooner or later, they will finish the metro construction mess at Piazza Municipio and you'll be able to see the Grand Hotel Londres in all its glory. Well, maybe not original glory since it is no ...

Scholars of world literature will recall that in Faust, Goethe's protagonist laments that even though he has studied philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, he felt that he knew nothing. Especially, ...

There, now that I have your attention, this is about aqueducts. The Roman aqueduct to supply the idle rich, the merchants and the imperial sailors with water was extensive and, indeed, an impressive ...

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 failed. As a simple ...