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- Porpora was born in Naples. He graduated from the music conservatory ... as the commander of military forces at Naples, the prince of Hesse-Darmstadt ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Aversa, a town some 20 kilometers north of Naples. He had one brother, Ignazio ... the winter of 1737 in the Teatro Nuovo of Naples. It was followed in the next ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- and Hendrik ter Brugghen. He then moved to Naples and remained there the rest ... Bernadino Azzolino (ca. 1560-1645), in Naples in late 1616. The couple ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- of metaphysics in the university of Naples, and published “Elements ... and mechanics” (political economy) at Naples, and subsequently produced ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- was offered a contract to compose in Naples. Writing in Rome and Milan ... #039;s I puritani, and he returned to Naples to produce his already-mentioned ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 03:45, 18 April 2024
- singer and teacher, Nicola Porpora, in Naples, and scored a first success ... to outshine them all, was no stranger to Naples and to Neapolitan opera—Wolfgang ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- the University of Padua and a lecturer at Naples, Rome, Pisa, and Salerno ... Sessa Aurunca or Japoli in Calabria, near Naples, Italy. He settled for a ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- ===Naples and the English period (1630-1653)=== In 1630, Artemisia moved to Naples, a city rich with workshops and ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- Pope Alexander allied himself with Naples, while Milan was allied with ... In order to strengthen ties with Naples, Pope Alexander in 1498 arranged ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- June 1819 to study at the conservatory in Naples, with a stipend from the ... Teatro del Conservatorio di San Sebastiano, Naples) * Bianca e Gernando ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- and in competition for the throne of Naples, the former with some success ... Wars with Venice and Naples [[Image:Naples-Castel Nuovo.jpg|thumb|left ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- of the maritime cities of Italy—Rome, Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi—to form ... maritime city-states, including Rome, Naples, Amalfi, and Gaeta, to oppose ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 09:41, 24 November 2022
- in Rome, and finally made his way to Naples, and the court of Alfonso ... In Naples, Valla wrote De libero arbitrio, Dialecticae disputationes ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Charles I of Hungary (1288, Naples, Italy – July 16, 1342, Visegrád, Hungary, is also known as Charles Robert, Charles Robert of Anjou, and ...26 KB (3,949 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- without taking a degree and returned to Naples, where he began a demanding ... Institute for Historical Studies in his Naples home, where he had an extensive ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- of Dante. Around 1327 Boccaccio moved to Naples when his father was appointed ... In Naples Boccaccio began what he considered his true vocation, poetry ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- of the court. Tinctoris then went to Naples in 1472 and spent most of the rest of his life in Italy. ==Musical Output== [[Image:white_mensural_notation ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- on February 26, 1873, having been born in Naples, Italy, one day earlier. ... He began his career in Naples in 1894. The first major role that he ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- at skirmishing. A siege was required at Naples, however, where the report ... whether before or soon after the siege of Naples (the Benedictines ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- * Natural Sciences Museum Centre, University of Naples Federico II (NSMC). 2002. [http://www.musei.unina.it/Paleontologia/eng/3.2.5.2.htm Labyrinthodontia ...10 KB (1,382 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- engagements soon followed, this time to Naples in 1362. On his way back ... of the king of Cyprus, Queen Joan I of Naples and of the Byzantine emperor ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- Judaism. He was born at Capistrano, near Naples in Italy, in 1385. He studied ... Angevin court of Louis I of Anjou, King of Naples. John lived at first a wholly ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- Allies. On October 7, 1943, Robert Capa was in Naples with Life reporter Will Lang Jr. and photographed the Naples post office bombing. ...13 KB (2,002 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- cultures: Italians, particularly from Naples, are proud of authentic pizza ... know it today originated in Italy, specifically in Naples. ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- in England and Austria acquired Milan, Naples, and the Spanish Netherlands. ... the Spanish Netherlands, the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, and the bulk of ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- In 1589, without permission from his order, Campanella went to Naples ... he was captured and incarcerated in Naples. Feigning insanity, he managed ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- out of the papal states and the kingdom of Naples. Among the fiefs destined ... and the Pope formed a league against Naples (April 25, 1493) and prepared ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- Born at Nola (in Campania, then part of the Kingdom of Naples) in ... In 1576 he left Naples to avoid the attention of the Inquisition. ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 13:28, 15 December 2022
- Italy, spending nine months in a hospital in Naples. Helped by a Russian aristocratic family, he returned to Moscow in 1835. There he composed his ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples, while intercepting the ships ... after hearing the news that the Kingdom of Naples was shaken by the revolt ...33 KB (5,326 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2022
- a chair in rhetoric at the University of Naples. Throughout his career, Vico ... As he relates in his autobiography, Vico returned to Naples from Vatolla ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- Born in Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples, to a family of Venetian merchants ... he was requested by the leading men of Naples to go to Spain and apprise ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- exhibited him in the literary circles of Naples, and then placed him under ... to the work of his profession. In Naples, he entered the office of ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- with the most illustrious families of Naples. Unfortunately for Tasso ... his mother and his only sister Cornelia at Naples, pursuing his education under ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- Rome and sent him to a prison island near Naples, where he soon died from ... pope soon entered the country, apparently at Naples. However, Vigilius ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 11:43, 13 February 2022
- is Codex Borbonicus, of the National Library at Naples, dated about 1200 C.E. and apparently copied by a scribe who knew no Greek. The book was first ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- involved in an attempt to become Queen of Naples. The plot failed and Christina ... ===Plot to ascend throne of Naples=== By 1656, Christina was running ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- all based on the same tune, found in Naples, based on stylistic comparison. ... # Missa L'homme armé (VI) (these six masses from Naples, attributed ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- the kingdoms of Milan in the north and Naples to the south of Rome. As ... the French troops in the sieges of Naples and Capua south of the Papal ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. It ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- third wife, Beatrice, daughter of Ferdinand I of Naples. ... In 1480, when a Turkish fleet seized Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- form of expression. He died in 1844 at Naples, where he had gone in pursuit of a milder climate. == Poetry == Baratynsky's earliest poems ...7 KB (1,089 words) - 18:40, 31 May 2022
- *Alzira - Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1845 *Attila - Teatro La Fenice ... *Luisa Miller - Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1849 *Stiffelio - Teatro ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- in the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni. His visit to Naples, at the invitation of the king, took place in the same year. ==Legacy== The style of execution ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- to him by Pope Pius IV, he began to lecture at Naples and finally founded the academy of Cosenza. In 1563, or perhaps two years later, appeared his ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- the wife of the British ambassador to Naples, is also well-known. ... Mediterranean, based out of the Kingdom of Naples. In 1794 he was wounded in ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- castle of Roccasecca in the kingdom of Naples. Today, this castle is in ... When he was 16, he left the University of Naples, where he studied for six ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- *Queen Maria Caroline of Naples and Sicily (1752-1814), married King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily (1751-1825); had issue. *Archduke Ferdinand ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- Jesuit Matteo Ripa, from the kingdom of Naples, worked as a painter and ... studi di Napoli L'Orientale" (Naples Eastern University). ...20 KB (3,209 words) - 02:38, 5 October 2022
- De Vio was born to a noble family in Gaeta in the kingdom of Naples, Italy on February 20, 1469, as Jacopo Vio. The name Tommaso was taken as ...15 KB (2,393 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- 16, 1590, at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples, when Gesualdo had allegedly ... Most of his famous music was published in Naples in 1603 and 1611, and the ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- to conquer the rest of Italy, with Naples, Rome, Milan and the Ostrogoth ... of the earliest universities in Europe (in Naples), wrote a book on falconry ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- who were his peers. Tinctoris, who was writing in Naples, singles him out in a short list of the master composers of the day—all the more significant ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- Vesuviano (founded in 1841) in Naples, now a part of the Italian government agency INGV. ==See also== * Space observatory * Telescope ...10 KB (1,374 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- 7, he entered the capital city of Naples. However, he had never defeated ... resigned the next day. Garibaldi rode into Naples at the king's side on ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- son of the House of the Sanseverino of Naples, Princes of Salerno. As a youth, he decided to dedicate his life to the study of ancient Rome. ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- ===Crusade Against Naples=== issued a crusade against King Ladislaus of Naples, Gregory XII's protector ...28 KB (4,685 words) - 08:56, 1 April 2024
- when Austria, Piedmont, the Kingdom of Naples, Prussia, Spain, and the ... Austria, Great Britain, the Kingdom of Naples, the Ottoman Empire, Papal ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Papyri in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples. Another very important set of early transcripts (made between 1802 and 1808) is in the Bodleian Library ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- where Barbaja, the impresario of the Naples theatre, concluded an agreement ... Some older composers in Naples, notably Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- enclave in France. The southern cities of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia had ... Urbino under Federico da Montefeltro. In Naples, the Renaissance was ushered ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- After the death of his wife, Howard returned to traveling. While in Naples, Italy, in 1770, he had a profound religious experience. It is believed ...10 KB (1,593 words) - 05:58, 3 August 2022
- | place_of_birth = Naples | date_of_death = November 28, 1680 ... Bernini was born December 7, 1598, in Naples to a capable Mannerist ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- political prisoners. Disquiet spread to Naples, where the Neapolitan liberals ... 5 at Eboli, near Salerno. Meanwhile, Naples had been declared in a state ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- Italian poet and a political asylum seeker from Naples, Italy. In addition to her two highly accomplished brothers, she had a sister, Maria Francesca ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- the currently dormant Vesuvius near Naples and the very active Etna ... southwards (compare the tables for Rome, Naples, and Brindisi). ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- *Lead pigments: lead white, Naples yellow, Cremnitz White, Foundation White, red lead *Copper pigments: Paris Green, verdigris *Titanium pigments: ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 06:16, 18 November 2022
- Florence, Turin, Bologna, Palermo, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Venice, and Trieste. In December, Gustav Mahler conducted the opera in Budapest. Soon thereafter ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- In 1279, when Charles II, King of Naples, erected a Dominican convent at La Sainte-Baume, the shrine was found intact, with an explanatory inscription ...24 KB (3,839 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- of Spain from 1556 until 1598, King of Naples from 1554 until 1598, king ... title=King of Naples|years=1554 – 1598 rows=3|after=Philip III of ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- board, who were on their way from Spain to Naples. In 1505, they raided the ... before bombarding the ports in the Gulf of Naples. He then appeared in Lazio ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- kill him. Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in his Ode to Naples alludes to the basilisk: Be thou like the imperial basilisk, Killing thy foe with unapparent ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- years first visiting first Salerno, southeast of Naples, where there was a famous medical school. From Salerno Adelard traveled to Sicily, which at ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- giving pleasant and varied views of the Bay of Naples. The Inca used some farming terrace methods for soil conservation. They used a system of ...12 KB (1,820 words) - 03:26, 17 September 2023
- requesting only that he be allowed to keep Naples (in Italy). He was, moreover ... empire, but ceded the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia to Austria; ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- England, and convinced Gladstone to travel to Naples to view personally the inhumane conditions in which political prisoners were kept. ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- formed a partnership between the University of Naples, the Libyan Department of Antiquities of Cirenica, and the Libyan Ministry of Culture which is ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- to the area of Mount Vesuvius, near modern-day Naples. His chief aides were gladiators from Gaul and Germania, named Crixus, Castus, Gannicus, and Oenomaus ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- based on a manuscript printed at Naples in 1529 and recently rediscovered in the library of "an ancient Catholic family in the north of ...13 KB (1,897 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- Crown, when it passed to the Angevin dynasty of Naples through marriage; under the Angevins the towns became virtually independent republics. Upon ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- and Afonso de Paiva were sent via Barcelona, Naples, and Rhodes, into Alexandria, and from there to Aden, Hormuz, and India, which gave credence ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- *Santi Apostoli in Naples - Filamarino Altar *Sant'Andrea delle Fratte *Oratorio dei Filippini *Collegio de Propaganda Fide *Santa Maria ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 06:44, 1 April 2024
- Globe artichokes are known to have been cultivated at Naples around the middle of the ninth century, and are said to have been introduced to ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- icilies_1738.gif|22px]]Kingdom of Naples and Sicily [[Image:Sardegna1730%28TZ%29.jpg|22px]]Kingdom of Sardinia }} The Seven Years War (1756-1763 ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- at the church of Sant'Angelo a Nilo in Naples. In the same period, he executed the relief of the Feast of Herod and the statues of Faith and ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- to union with the Bourbon-ruled kingdom of Naples as the kingdom of the Two ... utilized Piedmontese, and the Bourbons of Naples primarily spoke Neopolitan. ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- later deserted in order to save his kingdom of Naples, leaving Napoleon's former stepson, Eugene de Beauharnais, in command. In the following ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- a second century Roman copy of a Hellenistic work (Naples)]] The Titans' role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- were locked away in the Secret Museum in Naples, Italy and what could not be removed was covered and cordoned off so as to not corrupt the sensibilities ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- of recovering Milan and the Kingdom of Naples. Leo at once formed a new ... faith. Leo agreed to invest Charles with Naples, to crown him emperor, and ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Papacy (under Pope Pius V), Spain (including Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and the ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Brunssum in the Netherlands, Joint Force Command Naples in Italy, and Joint Command Lisbon, all multinational headquarters with many nations represented ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- in Piedigrotta, a district two miles from old Naples, near the Mergellina harbor, on the road heading north along the coast to Pozzuoli. The site ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (November 30, 1817 – November 1, 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- Nero greeted Tiridates at Neapolis (Naples) in October, sending a state chariot to carry the visitor over the last few miles. No one was allowed ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- *Vesuvius, Naples, Italy |} ===Elsewhere in the Solar System === [[Image:Olympus_Mons.jpeg|thumb|200px|Olympus Mons (Latin, "Mount Olympus ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- * La clemenza di Tito, Naples (4 November 1752) *Le Cinesi, Vienna, (24 September 1754) *La Danza, Vienna, (5 May 1755) *L'innocenza giustificata ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- then traveled to Florence, Rome and Naples. On his return in 1835, he ... Cairo, Beirut, Constantinople, Malta and Naples. Back in Paris in 1843, he ...30 KB (4,372 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- (named Parthenope, the Greek name for the city of Naples). Nightingale made a commitment to nursing based on an inspiration she understood to ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
