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	Masaniello -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Masaniello attempted to discipline the mob and restrain its vandalic instincts, and to some extent he succeeded; attired in his fisherman's garb, he gave audiences and administered justice from a wooden scaffolding outside his house.
		Finally, the (Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign) viceroy, whose negotiations with Masaniello had been frequently interrupted by fresh tumults, ended by granting all the concessions demanded of him.
		Masaniello's insurrection appealed to the imagination of poets and composers, and formed the subject of several operas, of which the most famous is (additional info and facts about Daniel Auber) Daniel Auber's La Muette de Portici (1828).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/masaniello.htm (460 words)

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		Masaniello Masaniellomäzänyĕl´lō, 1620?-1647, Neapolitan revolutionist, whose original name was Tommaso Aniello.
		He helped put down Masaniello's revolt (1647) in Naples, was viceroy of Sicily (1648-51), and fought (1651-52) against the rebels in Catalonia.
		Perhaps the best-known are the comedy Bäurischer Macchiavellus [the village Machiavelli] (1679) and the tragedy Masaniello (1688).
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Masaniello (297 words)

	MASANIELLO - LoveToKnow Article on MASANIELLO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The outbreak began on the 7th of July 1647 with a riot at the city gates between the fruit-vendors of the environs and the customs officers; the latter were forced to flee, and the customs office was burnt.
		The rioters then poured into Naples and forced their way into the palace of the viceroy, the hated Count dArcos, who had to take refuge first in a neighboring convent, then in Castel Sant Elmo, and finally in Castelnuovo.
		Masaniellos insurrection appealed to the imagination of poets and composers, and formed the subject of several operas, of which the most famous is Aubers La Muette de Portici (1828).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MASANIELLO.htm (486 words)

	The Goat-Faced Girl
		One day, when Masaniello was working at the foot of a high mountain, he came upon the mouth of a cave which was so dark and gloomy that even the sun seemed afraid to enter it.
		When Masaniello heard her words he was very unhappy, because he felt sure, from the lizard's wanting one of his daughters, the youngest and tenderest too, that the poor little girl would only serve as dessert for the terrible creature's supper.
		Masaniello was much comforted by her words, and next morning as soon as it was light he took his little daughter by the hand and led her to the cave.
	www.rickwalton.com /folktale/grey08.htm (2093 words)

	conosciamonapoli.it-napoli-masaniello
		Masaniello, It is a young one of which quite little sappiamo of its past, it is known it essentially, to to be been one of the protagonists of the movements exploded to Naples in 1647 in square Market.
		Masaniello is quite soon I individualize like head and leader dell revolted, to its flank is the brother Giovanni.
		The effects of the rebellion of Masaniello see themselves after the defeat of the attempt giacobino of 1799, also then the monarchico of Ferdinando be able IV, returned to the power, provides to destroy the remains of the memory of the old revolution to populate of 1647-48 and of Masaniello.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /golfo37/masanielloinglese.htm (613 words)

	Salvatore Rosa
		Masaniello pledges the people's obedience to just governance, while Isabella and Rosa celebrate the confirmation of their mutual love.
		Masaniello again complains that he wishes to return to the life of a fisherman, but confronts Rosa with his idea of being king, not hearing the painter's plea that he return to sanity (Li...su quel fragil legno).
		Owing to the fact that the Auber work was already known in Italy as Masaniello, Gomes and Ghislanzoni were forced to rename their opera for another historical figure appearing in the French novel on which they based the libretto, poet /painter Salvator Rosa, famous for his landscapes but not for his revolutionary ardor.
	www.gounin.net /ACGUS/srosa.html (1490 words)

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		Although Masaniello had recommended one hour to Ravello, Bond had remembered the journey of the morning and resolved to give himself two: this also gave him something to do, for only pain was a worse sensation than the torpor that sets in when killing time in a hotel bar.
		Masaniello had tried to impress on him the names of the literary set that had made it their retreat but even those of which Bond had heard meant nothing more to him than that: names.
		Masaniello and the Corelli woman aside, the others on the terrace comprised an equally transfixed group of three men and two women, who had been engaged in easy conversation, untroubled by the need to fill the regular ascents into silence brought on by the frequent — and impossibly wonderful — changes in the light.
	debrief.commanderbond.net /index.php?showtopic=24822 (17355 words)

	Reviews (ADR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Led by the fisherman Masaniello, the population revolts.
		The historical Masaniello called for the murder of the nobility, and was himself assassinated within ten days of his rebellion, which led to a short-lived Neapolitan republic, ultimately crushed by the Spanish.
		In Dumas' fiction, however, Masaniello struggles to control the violence of the revolution, the assassination attempts go awry, he marries the Duke of Arcos' daughter, rules wisely, and lives happily ever after.
	www.cadytech.com /dumas/note.php?key=184 (157 words)

	Masaniello, or La Muette de Portici - Opera
		"Masaniello, or La Muette de Portici" ("The Dumb Girl of Portici"), a grand opera in five acts, the music by Daniel Auber and text by Scribe and Delavigne, was first presented in Paris, Feb. 29, 1828.
		Masaniello, enraged, swears vengeance and calls the fishermen to arms against the despotic sway which has made the crime against his sister possible.
		" Masaniello " made a sensation at its appearance from the fact that it was the first realistic drama in five acts which possessed the attributes of a tragedy.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_117.shtml (958 words)

	Muette de Portici, La (The Mute Girl of Portici) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fenella seeks the aid of Masaniello, showing him that her seducer is married and refusing to give his name.
		Alfonso and Elvira seek shelter from the crowd in Masaniello's hut and are promised safety, in spite of Fenella's initial hesitations.
		Masaniello refuses to harm them, allowing them to leave in safety, but is threatened with death now by Pietro and his followers.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Muette_de_Portici_La(The_Mute_Girl_of_Portici).htm (340 words)

	La Muette De Portici
		An impassioned duet follows in which are expressed Masaniello's grief for his missing sister, and the mutual resolution of the friends to strike a blow for freedom (Mieux vaut mourir que rester miserable).
		At its close, Masaniello perceives Fenella, who is about to throw herself into the sea, but on recognizing her brother she descends the hill and indicates that she wishes to communicate with him alone.
		The sail in the background of the cottage being with drawn, the magistrates and citizens enter, to present Masaniello with the keys of the city and the royal insignia.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles30/opera-guide-10.shtml (1951 words)

	MASANIELLO - Online Information article about MASANIELLO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		movement was Masaniello, who took command of the malcontents.
		Masaniello refused the pension and laid down his dignities, saying that he wished to return to his old See also:
		bread, repented of its insane fury; the body of Masaniello was dug up and given a splendid funeral, at which the viceroy himself was represented.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MASANIELLO.html (904 words)

	vicerealm2
		Eligio and, as the disturbances spread, Masaniello came to the fore and led the mob to storm the Royal Palace.
		Masaniello and Genoino no longer saw eye-to-eye and the latter's control of the former was weakening as the Captain's power and popularity went more and more to his head.
		Genoino began to search for means to curtail Masaniello's power; in the end, it would seem that Masaniello made a good job of removing himself, storming into the church of the Virgin of Carmine on the day sacred to that lady and inveighing against those present that he had been betrayed.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/vicerealm2.html (1325 words)

	Encyclopedia: Masaniello
		July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining.
		Daniel François Esprit Auber (January 29, 1782 - May 13, 1871), French composer, the son of a Paris print-seller, was born in Caen in Normandy.
		Angel de Saavedra y Remírez de Baquedano, duque de Rivas (March 19, 1791 - June 22, 1865), Spanish poet and politician, was born at Cordova.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Masaniello (898 words)

	TAM TAM IL DAILY DI ITALIA CINEMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The revolutionaries (who failed) were led by Masaniello, a humble fisherman who became a local hero by leading the revolt.
		Then there’s the scene where Masaniello is arrested while shouting “down with bad government”, and, near the end, his entry into the Carmine church looking for the help of the cardinal and the assassination in the priests courtyard.
		But Masaniello comes back to life in the film and singing a rhythm about the events that turned him into a hero.
	www.tamtamcinema.it /persona.asp?lang=eng&id=647 (508 words)

	Cucina Italiana: Campania - A little history
		There were, in fact, frequent intrigues between the baronial opposition and the French, or the Savoyans together with hunger riots by the populace which have been recorded by Masaniello (1620-1647), a figure who enters our country’s history by virtue of his heroism and personal tragedy.
		Masaniello organised the revolutionary militia which lost against the soldiers of Filippo IV and which reorganised the town’s administration on a popular basis, though in fact these actions were promoted by Vitale and others acting behind the scenes.
		This tragedy of Masaniello’s is significant of a marked decline and wearing out of the Spanish dominion.
	www.emmeti.it /Cucina/Campania/Storia/Campania.ART.95.uk.html (1333 words)

	Masaniello -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Masaniello was a young fisherman in 1647 when he was chosen to lead a protest against a new tax on fruit, levied by the nobility to raise money to pay the tribute demanded by Spain.
		The insurrection against the nobles was successful, but Masaniello became intoxicated and urged the people to slaughter the nobles.
		Shortly thereafter, he was murdered by assassins hired by the nobles.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9051240 (358 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: "Causa di Stravaganze": order and anarchy in Domenico Gargiulo's Revolt of Masaniello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Piscicelli must have had a pronounced interest in the revolt, since he hung his capricci in close proximity to small portraits by Gargiulo and Jusepe de Ribera respectively of Masaniello and Don Juan (who is identified in the inventory as "il Reggente").
		The Piscicelli inventory confirms the weight of the independent evidence to suggest that the Revolt of Masaniello was painted separately from the Eruption of Vesuvius and the Plague of 1656.
		A painting of the eruption of Vesuvius might have hung alongside a painting of the plague or of the revolt of Masaniello or by itself, depending on the preference of the patron.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_80/ai_54073945/pg_3 (1038 words)

	Opera Plots I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Act 2 we are introduced to Masaniello, the fisherman brother of Fenella, who is the leader of a band of revolutionists; and he and his friend Pietro incite their fishermen companions to strive for liberty.
		In Act 4 Masaniello is shown as victorious in his efforts; but he is filled with grief on listening to the tale of civil war horror, described by Fenella, who has just come in from the city.
		Masaniello himself appears, singing snatches of his old fisherman songs, and proving the story of his frenzy to be true; but he is once more roused to action by Fenella, and rushes forth into the fray, where he is quickly slain.
	www.mrichter.com /opera/files/plots.htm (14989 words)

	The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 388 - Vol. 14, No. 388, Saturday, September 5, 1829 by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The day of death, says the preacher, is better than the day of one’s birth; a sentence to which whoever has lived long, and may humbly hope that he has not lived ill, must heartily assent.
		“It would be doing Masaniello injustice, however, if we did not add, that having no distinct prospect of rendering essential service to his country, he was at the same time totally free from any sinister views of personal aggrandizement.
		He appears to have been sincere in his wishes, that when he had set Naples free,—by which he understood the abolition of imposts,—the government of it should be committed to a popular management.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12063/15.html (477 words)

	SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Goat-Face: Giambattista Basile's Il Pentamerone (Story of Stories) 1911 Version
		When Masaniello (for that was the name of the labored) heard this, he fell on his knees and said, "Mistress What's-your-name, I am wholly in your power.
		These words comforted Masaniello; and the next morning, as soon as the Sun with the brush of his rays whitewashed the Sky, which the shades of night had flened, he took the little girl by the hand, and led her to the cave.
		There was money enough for portions to all the other daughters when they married, and even then the old folks had sauce remaining for themselves to enable them to swallow with relish the toils of life.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /pentamerone/8goatface1911.html (2022 words)

	Masaniello - Auber
		Her brother, the fisherman Masaniello, incensed by her wrongs, organizes a popular revolt, overturns the Spanish rule, and is proclaimed King of Naples by his exultant followers.
		At the instance of the forgiving Fenella, he spares the lives of Elvira and Alfonso; but the generous action costs him his own life, and, in despair, Fenella plunges into a stream of boiling lava pouring from Vesuvius.
		As regards the music of "Masaniello," it should be enough for modern opera-goers that Wagner praised it.
	www.music-with-ease.com /auber-masaniello.html (295 words)

	First Neapolitan Republic
		Spanish viceroy at the outbreak of Masaniello's revolt;
		With Masaniello out of the way, the restoration of civil order seemed in the making.
		But by the middle of August, it was evident the people who had taken to the streets were largely still out in the streets and unhappy.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/firstrepublic.htm (1276 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Masaniello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A corruption of TomMASo ANIELLO, a Neapolitan fisherman, who led the revolt of July, 1647.
		The great grievance was a new tax upon fruit, and the immediate cause of Masaniello’s interference was the seizure of his wife (or deaf and dumb sister) for having in her possession some contraband flour.
		Having surrounded himself with 150,000 men, women, and boys, he was elected chief of Naples, and for nine days ruled with absolute control.
	www.bartleby.com /81/11120.html (174 words)

	Piccirilli Biography
		The parents and their teenage sons Orazio, Getulio, Masaniello and a baby daughter, Iole had been preceded to this country by the older sons Ferruccio, Attilio and Furio who had come to New York from London a few months earlier.
		Giuseppe, who was born in Rome, moved to his wife’s village, Massa, in Tuscany, near the famous marble quarries of Carrara after their marriage.
		Furio and Masaniello both died in 1949 and Orazio in 1954.
	home.att.net /~ekjk/biography.html (945 words)

	Sorrento Tarantella show - Fauno Notte Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1647 the people rebel against the corrupt government, which wants to introduce new taxes.
		A fisherman, Thomas Aniello, nicknamed Masaniello, leads the revolution to its tragic end.
		The heart rending sound of a guitar represents the pain and grief of his young wife, Bernardina.
	www.tarantellashow.it /p02.asp?lng=en (45 words)

	KAREOL http://www.supercable.es/~ealmagro/kareol/
		Barcarola MASANIELLO Amigos, la mañana es bella, reuníos en la orilla, preparad vuestras barcas con alegría y desafiad las furias de los vientos.
		MASANIELLO (igual) Alzaos al primer grito de alarma.
		MASANIELLO, PEDRO, CORO A la primera señal, al primer grito de alarma, estaremos preparados para combatir.
	www.geocities.com /ubeda2004/muda/acto1.htm (4907 words)

	The Masaniello Cooperative Flower Market at Ercolano, Naples, Italy, is the only flower Cooperative in the region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Masaniello Cooperative Flower Market at Ercolano, Naples, Italy, is the only flower Cooperative in the region
		The growth registered in past editions makes FloRa one of the most qualified appointments for the operators in the ornamental horticultural trade at a national and international level.
		FloRa has a vital role to help growers in Southern Italy simplify the processes of production, strengthen the quality of production, handling and logistics, and to become more competitive in order to meet the challenges of the global market.
	www.clamerinforma.it /Eventi_e_fiere/Descrizione/Flora2003/FloRa_ENG.htm (563 words)

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