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The "portals" link on the above menu bar is for broad areas such as "literature," "art," etc.  There are also 38 Naples Miscellany pages that contain a number of items NOT in this general index. Those pages are in chronological order and run from May 2007 to the present. They are in this index under -M- or they start here; the most recent page is here. (As of Dec 2010, there is an additional Early Miscellania page for items before 2007.) I have put a number of the more whimsical entries into a series called "Everything is related to Naples" (ErN on the menu bar, above) and the "other" tab on the menu bar has a few extraneous items that are not in the main index. I welcome email about content, mistakes and broken links.
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Alphabetical Index for the Around Naples Encyclopedia    

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——> to index page 2   L-Z  Updated Feb 5, 2012. Most recent changes:

Feb 5
This is NOT the River Styx!


Feb 1
G. Garzya-Secret & Ancient Naples
Feb 3 America's Cup update & Al Pacino in Naples
NEW IN JANUARY 2012    more Metro construction, Piazza Carità     lo Guarracino   taxi strike
Staircase in National Museum       revision: Urban Vomero           The incredible waste-eating bug!    
Roberto Murolo-plaque       Villa Floridiana open       update to metro construction    
The Neapolitan Cuccagna    The Wizard's Secret    the new iBrick      Peter of Eboli
NEW IN DECEMBER 2011     Gay Odin    Carlo Gesualdo   Who were the Sybarites?  The Chimp & I
iPad app on Naples ready   PompeiiWorld!   The Fèscina: an unusual tomb  Monte Nuovo  
The Siege of Naples 1528   Arco Felice, Old & New  Exultet rolls (scrolls) of Southern Italy


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A Bell for Adano
Abravanel (Benvenida, Samuel)
Abu Tabela
Academy of Fine Arts
Academia Secretorum Naturae
Achenbach, Oswald
Acton
Actors Studio
Acropolis, Recovering the
advertising (1) (2) (3) (4)
ads & English
Aeolus
Afragola (rapid train station)
agri-archaeology
agriturismo
Agropoli
A.I.A.P. (presepe association)
airport (complaints)
airports
Albacini, Carlo
Albergo-Poveri (1) (2) (3)
Alberobello
Alburni Mountains
Alexiad,The
Alifana railway
Al-Kindi
All thy Conquests
Alnwick (William of)
Altamura, Saverio
Altavilla, Pasquale
Alvino, Errico
Amalfi (1)   (2)
Amalfi Maritime Code
Amendola, G.B.
America's Cup (1)   (2)
Amina/Picentia (Etruscan)
Amerigo Vespucci (ship)
amphitheater,Roman Naples
Anacapri



Anacapri (Engl. forts)(1)  (2)
Anacapri (Letter from, 2011)
ancient peoples of the South
Andreozzi, Gaetano
Angelini, Tito
Angevin Fortress
Angevin Naples
Annese, Gennaro
Annius of Viterbo
Anniversary Waltz
Annunziata, Church
Antecce (rock sculpture)
anthropology
Anticaglia, via
Antiniana, via
Antonino stadium
Aponte, Gianliugi
April Fool's Day
anti-Risorgimento
aquarium (Dohrn)
aqueduct (Apulian)
aqueduct (Carolino)
aqueduct (Roman)(1) (2)
Aquinas, Thomas
Arab Influence
Aragon, Crown of (1) (2)
Aragonese Naples
Arborea, Eleonora (of)
Archangel Michael (church)
archeology(1) (2) (3)
 (4) (5)
Archbishop's palace
Archimedes
Archiflegrean caldera
architecture (1)  (2)
architecture of Fascism
archives, state
Arcimboldi, Giuseppe

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Arco Felice
"arsenale" of Naples
art (contemp. religious)
Artemis (statue)
art, modern (1) (2)
art, modern (PAN museum)
art nouveau (1) (2) (3)
art, restoration
art theft
Arthur (King)
Ascarelli, Giorgio (stadium)
Ascensione a Chiaia
Aselmeyer Castle
Aspromonte
astronomy
Atella-Comedy Central
Atella (archaeology museum)
Atherstone, Edwin
Atlas (Farnese)
Auberjonois, René
Austrian Naples
Avella
Avena, Adolfo (1)  (2)
Averno, lake (main entry)
Averroës (Ibn-Rushid)
Avicenna (Ibn Sin)
Avicenna (Canon of Medicine)
Avignon Papacy
A Walk in the Sun

B-
Baboccio (da Piperno), A.
Bach, J.S.
Bagnoli
Bagnoli, future of (1) (2) (3)
(4) (5) (6)
bagpipes, Neapolitan (1)  (2)
Baia Thermal Baths
Baia (castle & museum)
Baia, Imperial Port
Baia, Temple of Venus
Balfe, Michael
ballet in Naples
"baloney"
Balsorano (Palazzo)
Bamonte, Giuseppe
Bandello, Matteo
bandits
Banca Intesa (art gallery)
Bank of Naples (archives)
Bank of Naples (treasures)
bank robbers
baptistery S. Giovanni in fonte
Barbaia, Domenico (1)  (2)
Barbati, Gaetano (priest)
Barber of Seville (other ones!)
Barcelona (cruise stop)
Barenboim, Daniel
Baroque (Back to the, 2010)
Barons' Revolt (Capaccio)
Baroque, Neapolitan (painters)
Barzini, L.: Italians in Argentina
Basile, Giambattista
baths, thermal (Roman)(1) (2)
Battistello (G.B. Caracciolo)
Baum, L. Frank
Bayard, the (1st train)
Bazzini, Antonio

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Bay of Naples (Renoir)
Bearded Lady (painting)
Befana
Bellini (piazza)
Bellini Theater
Bellini, Vincenzo
belfry, oldest
Belliazzi, Raffaele
Belvedere (villa)
beneath Naples
beneath oldest basilica
Benevento (Duchy of)
Benevento, Witches of
Bernari, Carlo
Beverello, molo (pier)
Big Rock Cockayne Mountain
bird symbolism
Black Death, the (1656)
black market
blackout
Boccaccio, Giovanni
bombing of Naples, WW2
bombs (unexplod.) (1) (2)
Bonaparte, Caroline
bonfires of Sant'Antuono
Boniface V (pope)
Boniface VIII (pope)

Boniface IX (pope)
books on Naples (1) (2) (3)
bookshops
Borgo Marinaro
Bossi, Marco Enrico
Botanical Garden
Bourbon Coffee (ad)
Bourbon (coat of arms)
Bourbons (1)  (2)  (3)  (4)
Bourbons in Exile, the
Bourbons miscellany
Bourbons (origins)
Bourbon troops/US Civil War
Bovio, Libero
Bozzutto, Giuseppe (Dr.)
Brandi (1)   (2)
brides, child
bridge (oldest)
"Bronze-Age Venice"
Brown, Harry
Bruni, Sergio
Bruno, Giordano (1)  (2)
Buchner, Giorgio
Buffalo Bill
buffaloes
building, illegal (1)   (2)
bull fighting in Naples
bureaucracy
Burney, Charles
Burnes, John Horne
busses & bus drivers
Butler, Samuel
bynames of kings


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cable-cars (1)   (2)   (3)
Caesar Augustus (villa)
"Caffarelli" (castrato)
café chantant
Cafè Express (film)
Caggiano, Emanuele
Calabria quake (1783)
Calabritto, Palazzo
Calasanzio, G.
Calà Ulloa, Pietro
Calderai, the (society)
Calì, Antonio
Caligula
Calore river

Camaldoli
Camaldoli Urban Park
Cammarano, Salvatore
Cammarano, Vincenzo
camels
Camillus de Lellis (saint)
camorra (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
camorra (on-line library)
Campeva (Etruscan)
Campi Flegrei
Campi Flegrei (museum)
Canova, Antonio
Capaccio (castle, plot)
Capece Minutolo, Antonio
Capodimonte
Capri
Capri, Battle of (1)  (2)
Capua (provincial museum)
Capuana, Porta, Castle
Capurro, Giovanni
Caracciolo, Fran. (admiral)
Caracciolo, Francis (Saint)
Caracciolo, G.("Battistello")
Caracciolo, Pier Antonio
Carafa di Belvedere
Carafa di Roccella (palazzo)
Carafa, Oliviero
Carasale, Angelo
Caravaggio, the last
Caravaggio Exhibit in Naples
Carbonari
Cardarelli, A. (hospital)
Carditello (Bourbon lodge)
Carlo, Prince of Capua
Carmelite (ancient order)
Carmelite (Discalced) Order
Carmina Burana
Carminiello ai Mannesi
Carmine Church (1)  (2)
Carnevale
Caroline (Queen of Naples)
Caroline, queen (the "other")
cars
Carus, C.G.
Caruso, Enrico
casa baraccata
Casacalenda (Palazzo)
Casanova in Naples
Casa Rossa (Anacapri)


Caserta Palace & San Leucio
Cascio Ferro, Vito
Casina Vanvitelliana
Castel Capuano
Castellammare (1) (2)
Castel dell'Ovo
Castel del Monte (Puglia)(1) (2)
castles, old
castles & towers & forts
castrati (1) (2) (3)
catacombs (1)  (2)
catacombs, Jewish
catastrophes
Cathedral
Caudine Forks (battle)
Cavagna, Gian Battista
Cavallini, Pietro (1)  (2)
Cavallino, Bernardo
cave-churches
cave-ins, sink-holes, etc.
caves (1)   (2)
Celano, Carlo
Celestine V (Pope)
Cellamare (Palazzo)
cell phones
Celts
Cemetery-366 Trenches
Center of Ancient Music
center/Naples, hist. (map)
centro direzionale
"centurionization"
Cerami (Battle of)
ceramics museum
Cerberus
Cerulli, Enrico
Cervantes in Naples
Championnet (General)
charity(1)   (2)
Charles II ('Little King')
Charles III
Charles V
Cheetah the chimp
Chiaiese, Leonardo
Chiatamone, (water of)
child labor
Chinatown
Chinese restaurants
choreography
Christ of Maratea (statue)
Christ Church
Christianity, early
Christian symbolism (1) (2)
Christie, Agatha
Christmas (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
Christmas Already?
Christmas Pieces, Four
Christological monogram
Church of the Cenacolo
Church of the 33
churches, misc.(starts here)
Cicerone (tour guide)
Cilea, Francesco
Cilento, national park
Cilento, hill towns
Cimarosa, D.
Cimbrone, Villa (Ravello)
Cimmerians
Ciociaria
Circumvesuviana railway
Cirella (Palazzo)
Cirillo, Domenico
Città-Partenope (on-line)
City Hall
city walls
circus


Civil War (U.S., Italians in)
Clanio (river)
Clodt v. Jürgensburg,P.
Coat of Arms, Bourbon
Cocceius, Lucius Auctus
Cocchiara, Giuseppe
Coleman, Charles C.
Collana, Arturo (stadium)
Collecini, Francesco (1) (2)
Colletta, Pietro
Colombo, Giacomo
Colonna, Vittoria
colors (of houses)
Comencini, Giovan Battista
Comic Opera
comic books
Commedia dell'Arte
composers, obscure
composers (other)
Conca, Sebastiano
Concistoriali, the (society)
Confederate flag
Confed. States of America
Conforto, Giang (1) (2) (3)
Congregation of the Oratory
Congregazioni (palace of the)
Congress (Italian Scientists)
Conradin (execution)
conservatory, music
conservatories, orignal

Constantine of Carthage
Constantine (Edict of)
construction
construction (to resist quakes)
Conte, Luisa
Coppola, Carlo
Coppola, villaggio
cops, undercover
copyright (1)  (2)  (3)
Corenzio, Belisario (1) (2)
Corigliano (Palazzo)
Corradino (1)  (2)
Coroglio (1)  (2)
Cortese, Giulio Cesare
Cosenza, Luigi (architect)
counterfeits
Counter Reformation, Naples
Craco (ghost town)
Craven, Elizabeth (1)  (2)
Craven (Villa)
Crawford, Marion (article)
cremation
Crescere Insieme
Crispi, Francesco
Cristoforo Colombo (ship)
Croce, B. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Croce di Lucca (church)
Cronaca di Partenope
Cruise, the
cryptic inscriptions
Cuccagna, il Paese di
Cuccagna,
the Neapolitan
Cucciniello, Michele
Culture Forum (2013)
culture, Neapolitan (1)  (2) (3) (4)  (5)
Cuma
Cumana railway
Cuoco, Vincenzo
currency (archaic units)
customs, new, old
cypress grove
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D'Acquisto, S.
da Camaino, Tino
da Lentini, Giacomo
Damecuta, villa (1)  (2)
D'Angelo, Francesco
d'Angri, Palazzo
Daniele, Pino
da Nola, Giovanni
Dante Alighieri
Dante, Piazza
Dante (statue)
da Panicale, Masolino
D'Arcos (viceroy)
Dark Ages in Naples(1)  (2)
death, culture of
de Alcubierre, Rocco
De balneis puteolanis
De Crescenzo, Luciano
De Filippo, Eduardo (1)  (2) (3) (4) (5)
De Filippo, Peppino
Dehnhardt, Friedrich
de Jorio, Andrea
de' Liguori, Alfonso Maria
della Porta, Giambattista
della Vigna, Pier

delle Colonne, Guido
dell'Orefice, Giuseppe
De Luca, Ferdinando
de Matteis, Paolo
demographics


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d'Enghien, Maria
de Mari (Poggio dei Mari)
De Muto, Salvatore
de Paganis, (H)ugo
de Ribera, Giuseppe
De Sanctis, Francesco
De Simone, R.
De Veroli, Carlo
Devil's Footprints
De Vulagari Eloquentia
dialect (Neapolitan) (1)  (2)
dialect lit. in Neapolitan
dialect theater
diaspora, Neapolitan
di Capua, Eduardo
Dickens, Charles
di Fausto, Florestano
Di Giacomo, S.
Diomede Carafa (Palazzo)
Dionysius (of Sicily)
diplo. relations, US/Naples


di Sangro, Raimondo
di Spigna, Alfonso
d'Ognate (viceroy)
dog racing
dog-sitting
Dohrn, Anton
dolmen
Domenichino

Donadio, Giovanni
Donizetti, G.
Donn'Anna, villa
Doria, Andrea
Doria d’Angri, Palazzo
Doria d'Angri, Villa
Dorian Invasion
D'Orsi, Achille
Doyle, Arthur Conan
dreams
driving in Naples
Dove sta Zazà (song)
dubbing, film
Duca d'Aosta (piazzetta)
Duchesca (Villa)
Duchess of Malfi, The
Dumas, Alexander
Duomo
Durante, Francesco
dynasties (time-line)
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Early Miscellania
earthquake (Calabria, 1783)
earthquakes
Easter Monday
Echia, Mt.
economics
Eden (Hotel)-ex
Edenlandia (park)
Egg Castle(1) (2)
"Eleonora"
Elea/Velia
emigration/immigration


emigration museum?
English cemetery (-ex)
English forts, Capri (1)  (2)
English usage
Enotrians (ancient people)
Epiphany
Equians (ancient people)
Esposito, Lello
Etruscans in Campania(1)  (2)
Eunostidi (Greek Naples)
Eureka!--museum exhibit
Eurispes
Euro, the (1)  (2)


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Everything is related to Naples: series starts here.
Evil Eye

extracomunitari
Exultet rolls of S. Italy

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Fabre, Jan
Falcone, Andrea
Falcone, Aniello
Fanzago, Cosimo
Farelli, Giacomo
Farinelli
Farnese Collection
Farnese, Palazzo (Rome)
fascio littorio (Fascist symbol)
Fascist architecture
Fascist plot against Croce
fast-food
fast-food (ancient) (1) (2)
femminiello
Ferdinando e Carolina (film)
Ferdinand II, "la bomba"
Ferdinand IV (a sidelight)
Ferrante of Aragon
Ferrigno. Giuseppe
Fersen (villa, on Capri)
Fèscina, the
Festa, Farina e Forca
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Filangieri, Gaetano
Filangieri museum
film noir
films set in Naples
Filomarino, A. (archbishop)
Filomarino, Palazzo
Finelli. Giuliano
Fiorentini, dei (theater)
Fiorenza, Rosario
Fiorillo, Silvio
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fireworks
Fireworks in Naples(painting)
Firrao, Palazzo
Fischetti, Fedele
Fiuggi
"Fjord" of Furore
Flegrean Fields
Floridiana, Villa
Florimo, Francesco
"flower people"
Foggia, Michele
food, slow
Fonseca Pimentel, E.
Fontana, Domenico
Fontanelle cemetery
football (soccer), early
Fortunato, Giustino
fortune tellers
Forty-Hour devotion (altar)
Fossataro, Marcello
fountains, (monument)
Four Days of Naples (1)  (2)
Fracanzano, Cesare


Fra Diavolo
Fra Nuvolo
Franceschi, Emilio
Franchetti, Alberto
Francis II ("Franceschiello")   (1)   (2)
Frankenstein
Franklin, Benjamin
fratria (Greek Naples)
Frederick II (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Freight Village (Nola)
Friday the 17th!
Fruit of Christmas, The
Fučík, Julius
Fuga, Ferdinando
Funiculì Funiculà
Funiculì-Funiculosed
funicolare (Montesanto)
funicolare (MS: new station)
funicolare (new station 2)
furbone
Fusaro, Lake
Fussel, Paul

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Gaeta
Gaiola
Galdieri, Rocco and Michele
Galilei, Vincenzo
Galleria Umberto
Galleria ‘Principe di Napoli’
Gallery, The (novel)
Galuppi, Baldassarre
Gambrinus Caffè
Gandolfi, Riccardo
garbage and beauty
Gargiulo, D. (1)  (2) (Micco Spadaro)
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garibaldi (US reaction 1) (2)
Garigliano river
Garzya, Giacomo
Gaudí, Antonio
Gay Odin
Gazzaniga, Giuseppe


Gazzola, Felice
Gemito, Vincenzo(1) (2)
Genoa (cruise stop)
Genovesi, A.
Genoino, Giulio
geology (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
geophysics observ. Ischia
gestures, hand (1) (2)
gestures & A. de Jorio
Gesualdo, Carlo
Gesù delle monache (church)
Gesù Nuovo, church & square
Ges.Nuovo, music on facade
Gesù Vecchio (church)
getting by
Ghetti, Bart. & Pietro
ghost towns
Giaquinto, Corrado
Giannetti, Giovanni
"Giant," the (fountain)
Gigante, Giacinto
Gigante, Marcello
Gioconda, la
Gioia, Flavio
Giordani, Giuseppe
Giordano, Luca (1)  (2)
Giov. Maria Trabaci (assoc.)
Girolamini (church, monas.)
Girolamini (pipe organ)
Gisolfo, Orazio
Gladstone's pamphlet/Naples
Gleijeses, Vittorio


Goethe, J.W.v.(1)  (2)
Golden Mile
Golden Pool, On
Gonzaga, Giulia
Goodyear Blimp
Gothic Wars
Gradola, villa (Anacapri)
graffiti (1)    (2)
Grand Hotel Londres
Grand Tour, the
Gravina, Palazzo
Grazzanise (airport)
Great Race of 1908
Great White Fleet
Greeks in Naples
Greek language (in Italy)
Greek Orthodox Church
Greene, Graham
Gregory VII (Pope)
Grimaldi, Francesco (1) (2)
Grossatesta, Gaetano
Gualtieri, Nicola
Guarracino, lo
Guglielmi, Pietro
Guiscard, Robert
Guise (Duke of)
guitar in Naples, the
gypsies (1) (2) (3)

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Hammett, A.
Hannibal
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Hesselblad, Mary Elizabeth
Hipparchus
historic center,Naples (map)
Holmes, Sherlock
Holy Apostles (church)
Homo Erectus (Aeserniensis)
Homer

hooligans (soccer)
Horn, Rebecca
horse's head
Horse Tamers, The (statues)
hospital del mare
hospital (First Polyclinic)
hospital for the "Incurable"
hospital, military (ex)convent
"hospital section" of Naples
Hospital, USA 17th General
Howells, William Dean

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Iapigi (ancient people)
ice-skating in Naples
I dreamt that I dwellt in marble halls
Incoronata, church
industrial archaeology
Industrial Arts museum
Immacolatella
immigration/emigration
Innocenti, Bruno
Inquisition (Medieval)
Inquisition (Spanish)
Insanguine, Giacomo
installation art
Inst. Historical Studies
Inst. Philosoph. Studies
Int. Cont. Drill. Program
intarsio
Io speriamo che me la cavo
iPhone app for touring Naples
Ischia(1)   (2)
Ischia (ancient/Pithecusa)
Islam (Muslim colony, Lucera)
Islam, early (in Italy)
Islam in Naples  (1)    (2) 
islands (small)
Isolympic Games (Neapolis)
Isouard, Nicolò
Italian naval flag
Italian Wars (1500s)
Italic Confederation




Italic peoples
Italsider (Ilva)
"Italy" (etymology)
"Italy" (first use of)
Iuvara, Martino



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jai alai (1)   (2)
Jason
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerace (Ierace), Francesco
Jessel, Leon
Jesuits in Naples
Jewish community
Jewish catacombs
Jewish quarter
Jews (early in Italy)
Jews of San Nicandro
Joanna I  & Joanna II
John of Austria
Joli, Antonio
Jolly Hotel
Jommelli, Niccolò
Jones, Lois Mailou
journals & newspapers, old
Journey to Parnassus
Jung, C.G.










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K666. Fra Mozart e Napoli (novelle)
Kagoshima, Japan
Kapoor, Anish
Kathleen Mavourneen
Keys, Ancel
Khedive (the, in Naples)
Knights Templar
Krupp, Alfred
Krupp (via) (Capri)

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