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47 unusual facts about Naples


1520 in art

Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples (died 1570)

1570 in art

Francesco Imparato, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Naples (born 1520)

2011–12 Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey season

Sanregret continued the search after Pearson turned down the job, but she met with Pearson again in early May at the American Hockey Coaches Association convention in Naples, Florida, and this time he was ready to accept.

Achille Lauro

As a politician, he maintained a great popularity and was venerated by the majority of the population of the city of Naples, to the point that in the municipal elections of 1952 and 1956 he received almost 300,000 votes, higher than any number of votes received by any candidate in local elections up to that point.

Algimantas Liubinskas

Famous results during his second tenure include a 1-1 draw against Germany in Nuremberg, a 1-0 victory over Scotland in Kaunas, and a 1-1 draw in Naples against Italy.

Arcangelo Guglielmelli

Here the final plan recalls the church of Santa Maria dell'Aiuto (where Arcangelo worked under Lazzari in 1672).

Arenaccia

Arenaccia is a historical neighborhood or zona of the Fourth Municipality of northeastern Naples, Italy.

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

He passed his entire career in the ministry in the area of Naples and at Lecce, Italy.

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.

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.

Christoph Ludwig Agricola

He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.

Dalbergia melanoxylon

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

Duchy of Naples

Apart from the church of San Giovanni a Mare, Norman buildings in Naples were mainly lay ones, notably castles (Castel Capuano and Castel dell'Ovo), walls and fortified gates.

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

The economy is measured on a provincial level; the province of Naples is placed 94th out of the total of 103 provinces in Italy in terms of gross value added.

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

Edward Foote

He served on a number of ships and at several actions, but is best known for becoming caught up in the aftermath of the collapse of the Parthenopean Republic at Naples in 1799.

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

After the battle of the Nile, Seahorse was attached to the blockade of Alexandria before transferring to Naples early in 1799.

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.

First Municipality of Naples

The First Municipality (In Italian: Prima Municipalità or Municipalità 1) is one of the ten boroughs in which the Italian city of Naples is divided.

Follonica

The railway linking Reggio Calabria in the south and Turin in the north runs through the city, providing direct railway connections to the cities of Grosseto, Rome, Turin, Naples, Pisa and La Spezia, among others.

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.

Franco Ambrosio

Francesco Vittorio Ambrosio was born on 18 September 1932 in the village of San Gennariello di Ottaviano near Naples and close to Mount Vesuvius.

Friedrich Dehnhardt

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

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.

Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt

Armfelt was also appointed as the Over-Governor of Stockholm, but the new regent was staunchly anti-Gustavian and sent Armfelt to serve as the Swedish ambassador to Naples in order to get rid of him.

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.

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.

Patient lift

In January 2008, the family of an elderly Naples, Florida woman sued the nursing home where the woman was residing after she died from a fall off a Hoyer lift.

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.

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.

Southern Italy

The peninsular territories, contemporaneously called Kingdom of Sicily, but called Kingdom of Naples by modern scholarship, went to Charles II of the House of Anjou, who had likewise been ruling it.

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

Many of the new Hellenic cities became very rich and powerful, like Neapolis (Νεάπολις, Naples, "New City"), Syracuse, Acragas, and Sybaris (Σύβαρις).

On the Adriatic, south of the "spur" of the boot, the peninsula of Monte Gargano; on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Gulf of Salerno, the Gulf of Naples, the Gulf of Policastro and the Gulf of Gaeta are each named after a large coastal city.

During this period, he also built the Castel del Monte, and in 1224, he founded the University of Naples, now called, after him, Università Federico II.

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

The Real Teatro di San Carlo (Royal Theatre of Saint Charles), its original name under the Bourbon monarchy but known today as simply the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy.

Thomas E. Duff

On March 4 he was wounded and transported to the 70th General Hospital in Naples.

United Seamen's Service

As an example the center in Naples, Italy was heavily dependent on personnel from the United States Sixth Fleet; during the 1970s, aircraft carriers (such as the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), destroyer tenders (such as the USS Grand Canyon (AD-28) and USS Cascade (AD-16), as well as myriad destroyers and patrol gunboats made Naples their home, and sailors found the USS facilities another home away from home.

Many other centers existed during the years of World War II and thereafter, including centers in Naples and Genoa, Italy; Bandar Mahshahr, Iran; Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam; Alexandria, Egypt and Manila, Philippines.


2002 Molise earthquake

It lasted for 60 seconds and could be felt distinctly in the centre of Molise, in the Capitanata, the Province of Chieti, and could be perceived in the Marche, Bari, Benevento, Matera, Brindisi, Rome, Naples, Potenza, Salerno, Taranto and Pescara.

641

Arechis I, duke of Benevento (northeast of Naples), dies after a 50-year reign and is succeeded by his son Aiulf I.

Adam de la Halle

At the court of Charles, after Charles became king of Naples, Adam wrote his Jeu de Robin et Marion, the most famous of his works.

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.

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).

Bruno Mussolini

In September, before the Kingdom of Italy invaded the Ethiopian Empire, Air Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, 32, sailed from Naples to Africa aboard the MS Saturnia.

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.

Cataldo Amodei

He was born in Sciacca and in 1685 was ordained as a priest; in the same year he became maestro di cappella at the church of San Paolo Maggiore, Naples.

Domenico Battaglia

Other paintings include Inside the choir of San Severino in Naples; Interior of Sacristy of San Martino in Naples, awarded a prize in Parma; and another Interior of Choir of San Severino, Un coretto ; Carmine Giordano, exhibited in Paris; Pergolesi and the Stabat Mater exhibited in London, and a Winter Forest.

Edgardo Saporetti

At the age of 15 years, he traveled to Rome to work under Cesare Mariani, director of the Accademia di San Luca, then moved to Naples where he worked in the studio of Domenico Morelli.

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.

Eugippius

After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later Castel dell'Ovo).

Faiano

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

Giosuè Argenti

He was also entered into the Order of the Crown of Italy, and honorary associate of the Academies of Fine Arts of Milan, Urbino and Naples.

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.

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.

Harry Luman Russell

He went to Europe for further study under Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur; first at the University of Berlin, then at the Zoological Station in Naples, and finally at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

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.

International College

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

Isabella del Balzo

A combination of King Louis XII of France and King Ferdinand II of Aragon had continued the claim of Louis' predecessor, King Charles VIII of France, to Naples and Sicily.

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 Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

John O. Simonds

Pelican Bay, located in Naples, Florida, became one of Simonds' great large-scale projects.

John Thomas Jones

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

Luigi Giura

Giura received his first schooling in Maschito at the school of the Fathers of St. Joseph Calasanz and then at the seminary in Melfi; he later moved to Naples to attend university courses.

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).

Marsico Nuovo

The last count from the latter, Ferrante Sanseverino, was exiled in 1552 and his fiefs acquired by the Kingdom of Naples.

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.

Matthias Rexroth

Notable concerts include those with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti, Fabio Luisi with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome, Nicola Luisotti with the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos with the Wiener Symphoniker.

NATO Rapid Deployable Italian Corps

NRDC-IT is operationally led by the Joint Force Command Headquarters in Naples, Brunssum or Lisbon.

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.

Santa Maria di Costantinopoli

The apse lunette was decorated by Belisario Corenzio with a fresco of the Virgin & John the Baptist pleading with the Trinity to liberate Naples from the plague.

Sorrento, Western Australia

It is assumed that the name was taken from the Italian seaside town of Sorrento which is located south of Naples opposite the Isle of Capri.

Southern Cone

Preliminary research has shown that Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian dialects on Naples and that area, and differ markedly from the patterns of other forms of Spanish.

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.

Veremonda

The opera was first performed at the Nuovo Teatro del Palazzo Reale in Naples on 21 December 1652, to celebrate the Spanish capture of Barcelona, which put an end to the revolt of Catalonia (Naples was also a Spanish possession).

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.

Walter Newman Haldeman

As a businessman, Mr. Haldeman is also known as the founder of Naples, Florida and the owner of the Major League Baseball team, the Louisville Grays; a charter member of the National League.