Naples Past and Present

About this eBook

Author

Norway, Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1859-1938

Title

Naples, Past and Present

Credits

Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta

Subject

Naples (Italy) -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

39100

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39100

Release Date

March 11, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.NAPLES PAST AND PRESENT
2. 2.PREFATORY NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.CHAPTER I THE APPROACH TO NAPLES BY THE SEA
6. 6.CHAPTER II THE ANCIENT MARVELS OF THE PHLEGRÆAN FIELDS
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE BEAUTIES AND TRADITIONS OF THE POSILIPO WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON VIRGIL THE ENCHANTER
8. 8.CHAPTER IV THE RIVIERA DI CHIAIA AND SOME STRANGE THINGS WHICH OCCURRED THERE
9. 9.CHAPTER V THE ENCHANTED CASTLE OF THE EGG AND THE SUCCESSION OF THE KINGS WHO HELD IT
10. 10.CHAPTER VI THE BARBARITIES OF FERDINAND OF ARAGON WITH CERTAIN OTHER SUBJECTS WHICH PRESENT THEMSELVES IN STROLLING ROUND THE CITY
11. 11.CHAPTER VII CHIEFLY ABOUT CHURCHES WITH SOME SAINTS, BUT MORE SINNERS
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII A GREAT CHURCH AND TWO VERY NOBLE TRAGEDIES
13. 13.CHAPTER IX VESUVIUS AND THE CITIES WHICH HE HAS DESTROYED—HERCULANEUM, POMPEII, AND STABIÆ
14. 14.CHAPTER X. CASTELLAMMARE: ITS WOODS, ITS FOLKLORE AND THE TALE OF THE MADONNA OF POZZANO
15. 15.CHAPTER XI SURRIENTO GENTILE: ITS BEAUTIES AND BELIEFS
16. 16.CHAPTER XII CAPRI
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII LA RIVIERA D'AMALFI, AND ITS LONG-DEAD GREATNESS
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV THE ABBEY OF TRINITÀ DELLA CAVA, SALERNO, AND THE RUINED MAJESTY OF PÆSTUM
19. 19.APPENDIX
20. 20.INDEX
21. 21.FOOTNOTE

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