Comments on Naples             Through the Eyes of ...                     

Bayard Taylor, description of the 1868 eruption of Vesuvius.
Charles Dickens
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1) - Vesuvius   (2) - Pompeii
Craufurd Tait Ramage - The Assassination of Murat
Another account of the death of Murat (from The North American Review, May 1816).
William Gladstone- an 1851 review of his Letters...on the State Prosecutions of the Neapolitan Government.
William Dean Howells  - Naples and Her Joyful Noise
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1)  - Vesuvius    (2) - Pompeii   (3) - A boat trip
Mark Twain
Pliny the Younger
from The Galaxy, (1868): on the end of the camorra
from Harper's, 1855: unsigned excerpt on Naples
from The North American Review (1816): A view of the king of Naples
Charles Burney -  from The Present State of Music in France and Italy, published in 1771.
Arthur H. Norway - Excerpt from Naples, Past and Present.
Horace Walpole - The Discovery of Herculaneum
Axel Munthe - Excerpt from Letters from a Mourning City
from The New York Times: - 1906 article on R. Matteucci, "the hero of Vesuvius."
Marion Crawford: 1907 NYT article on The Secret Societies of Italy.
from The New York Times: -  1862 article, "Garibaldi's game is played out."
from the Charleston Daily Mail, 1931 article about Benedetto Croce.
Lady Elizabeth Craven - excerpts from memoirs.
Luigi Barzini, Sr. - Southern Italians in Argentina. (1902)
Janet Ross - excerpt from The Land of Manfred. (1889)
Arthur John Strutt - excerpt from A Pedestrian Tour in Calabria & Sicily (1842)
D.H. Lawrence - excerpt from Sea and Sardinia (1921)