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  KINGDOM OF NAPLES - Online Information article about KINGDOM OF NAPLES
Bay of Naples; where the king's son, Charles the Lame, was captured.
Guelph leader owing to the rise of other powerful princes and republics, while in Naples itself his authority was limited by the rights of a turbulent and rebellious baronage (see ROBERT, king of Naples).
Carlos of Bourbon, son of Philip V. of Spain, easily conquered both Naples and Sicily, and in 1738 he was recognized as king of the Two Sicilies, Spain renouncing all her claims.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NAPLES_KINGDOM_OF.html   (5546 words)

  
 See Naples and diet | Travel | The Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
I am drawn in by a small display cabinet fronting the street, decorously hung with pale, langorous blanched tripe, cows' feet, pigs' trotters and a bit of calf's head all dripping with the water which was continually sprayed over them.
Beyond the cabinet is a tiny and immaculate dining room with five tables, each covered with a blue check oil cloth, big, battered fridges at the back, and a small kitchen down one side behind glass.
See Naples and sigh: Sue Townsend remembers how, as a gawky 14-year-old with a dodgy perm, she had her first stirrings as a writer on an Italian train, then escaped from her school party to disappear into a night of delicious bread, toothpaste and amore with a boy called Antonio.
travel.guardian.co.uk /article/2002/oct/26/naples.italy.travelfoodanddrink   (2027 words)

  
  Naples National Archaeological Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli (Naples National Archaeological Museum) is located in Naples, Italy.
The Farnese Cup is the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent"; it is Ptolemaic bowl made of sardonyx agate.
The Secret Cabinet, a separately housed collection of erotic Roman art.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_Napoli   (239 words)

  
 Camillo Benso di Cavour
By far the ablest man in the cabinet, he soon came to dominate it, and, in his anxiety to dominate the chamber as well, he negotiated the union of the Right Center with the Left Center (a manoeuvre known as the connubio), and promoted the election of Urbano Rattazzi to the presidency of the chamber.
Cavour also had a secret interview with Giuseppe Garibaldi, with whom he arranged to organize volunteer corps so that the army should be not merely that of Piedmont, but of all Italy.
The situation in the kingdom of Naples was now becoming critical, but there seemed as yet little chance of union with upper Italy, for the Bourbon government was a more or less regular one, and, although risings had broken out, there was no general revolution.
www.nndb.com /people/514/000092238   (4764 words)

  
 musis - naples museums Bay Of Naples
On the first floor, alongside the Farnese collection you can see the Royal Apartments with an array of Bourbon craftsmanship, including the celebrated porcelain ware; on the second and third floors there is the Neapolitan Gallery and displays of 19th century and contemporary art.
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is not merely one of the most remarkable collections of ancient exhibits in the world: its rooms house historical collections which can justly claim to be a cornerstone of Italian cultural history.
The testimonies exposed come from the ancient Capua and its surroundings and are dated from X to III century b.C.; there are evidences showing the transition from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Iron Age, grave goods from Villanovian necropolis, corinthian vases, bronze and pottery goods.
www.italytraveller.com /en/r/naples/c/musis-naples-museums   (460 words)

  
 Metternich on Making Peace, 1814
The cabinet of Vienna had therefore to fear that, by allying herself too closely with France, whose support was essentially useful in her contests with Prussia and Russia, she might have to sacrifice to this Power a part of her great interests in Italy.
This cabinet was so familiarised with the idea of absorbing Saxony entirely, that the proposal to content herself with 430,000 subjects in that country, and to re-establish the King of Saxony, who it believed deposed for ever, could only alarm and embitter her.
By a secret article of the Treaty of January 11, 1814, an article specially approved by the English ministers, there was stipulated in favour of the King of Naples an increase of territory amounting to four hundred thousand souls in population, to be taken from the possessions of the Pope.
coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~habsweb/sourcetexts/vienna.htm   (5832 words)

  
 Contemplating Naples / The world's best pizza. Squalor and crime. Incomparable beauty. Can all three be true?
Naples was once a sparkling regional capital - the colonial outpost of the French, Spanish and Austrian royalty, respectively - and an essential stop on the 19th century European grand tour.
Naples is no longer the hotbed of licentious activity that it once was, an anything-goes port town where sailors stopped for a quick frolic.
The most common pizzas in Naples are the Margherita, with tomato, mozzarella and basil; the Marinara, with just tomato, oregano and oil; a Margherita with anchovies (often called Romana); and sausage with a kind of mustard green called friarielli, sans tomato.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/29/TR107721.DTL&type=printable   (2429 words)

  
 Secret museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
When Europeans discovered the ruins of Pompeii in the mid-18th century they were forced to grapple with abundantly public images and objects commonplace in ancient Roman culture depicting sexual activities considered taboo to even discuss.
A secret museum is a museum that is not accessible to the general public.
The most famous secret museum is the Secret Museum of Naples which is now open to the public, but was hidden from 1819 until 2000.
www.jahsonic.com /SecretMuseum.html   (829 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - Jigsaws: A User's Manual
Perec’s novels, as Paul Auster has noted, are “studded with intellectual traps, allusions and secret systems,” and the extraneous W refers us to an earlier book, which takes that letter as its title.
It is a memoir of Perec’s childhood, interspersed with a tale about two Gaspard Wincklers—which turns out to be the name of the jigsaw cutter Percival Bartlebooth employs to make fragmented mysteries of his paintings.
Perhaps only my grandmother was able to decode the secret messages that some of these rebuses contained.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/16/turner.php   (1319 words)

  
 Bangkok When the Leaves Turn
He protects Naples from eruptions of Vesuvius, and is also invoked against the evil eye.
The local physicians whose practice she took away met in conference, very cleverly concluded that her secret was having kept her virginity, and sent vigorous ruffians to undo the chaste charms that were costing them money.
The church honours her as the first female martyr, though in fact she was not a martyr at all — unless many escapes from death be equivalent to dying, or unless the saddest and perhaps noblest sort of womanly passion be regarded as martyrdom enough.
www.corkscrew-balloon.com /01/09/3bkk   (3968 words)

  
 What Scandalous Doin's in the Ruins of Pompeii [Free Republic]
The Secret Cabinet is actually two rooms containing a vast collection of ancient erotica: 250 frescoes, mosaics, statues, talismans, amulets, oil lamps as well as votive -- and highly explicit -- fertility symbols, most of them dug up during the 18th-century excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The Secret Cabinet is perhaps most interesting as a reflection of the shifting mores of recent history, a famous, rarely seen collection that opened in rhythm with liberal political movements that swept Europe in the 19th century and closed again when reactionary forces regained the upper hand.
William Hamilton, the British ambassador to the court of Naples (best known as the cuckolded husband of Emma Hamilton, the lover of Lord Nelson), wrote a paper in 1781 for the Royal Society of London comparing the cult of Priapus to the contemporary Roman Catholic cult of Sts.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38ed04bc596f.htm   (1657 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Pompeii's erotic art goes on show
When the kings of Naples - who first started the scientific excavation of Pompeii - discovered the objects three centuries ago, they found some so shocking that only "mature persons of secure morals" were able to see them.
One of the most striking objects on show is a one-metre high marble statue of a naked woman catalogued as the "Bikini Venus." The artist painted on her a scanty covering, similar to a modern bikini, in gold leaf.
Due to the small size of the secret cabinet, only 20 visitors will be admitted at a time, and children under the age of 12 will not be allowed into the new part of the museum without their parents' or a teacher's permission.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/715697.stm   (446 words)

  
 Talleyrand and the Congress of Vienna
The proposal read: Any prince may send plenipotentiaries to the Congress who had universally recognized sovereignty over a state that took part in the recent war, who has not ceded that sovereignty and whose sovereignty is un-contested.
Naples must be returned to its legitimate sovereign.
France had not achieved the restoration of legitimacy in Naples, that had been done by Austria, but Talleyrand was satisfied.
members.tripod.com /~RBeard/trand.htm   (5775 words)

  
 Francesco Crispi
By methods of the same character as those subsequently employed against himself by Felice Cavallotti, he carried on the violent agitation known as the Lobbia affair, in which sundry conservative deputies were, on insufficient grounds, accused of corruption.
Crispi was compelled to resign office, although the judicial authorities upheld the invalidity of his early marriage, contracted at Malta in 1853, and ratified his subsequent union with Signora Barbagallo.
The ensuing Rudini cabinet lent itself to Cavallotti's campaign, and at the end of 1897 the judicial authorities applied to the chamber for permission to prosecute Crispi for embezzlement.
www.nndb.com /people/197/000095909   (1250 words)

  
 Naples Hotels: Cheap hotels in Naples, Campania - lastminute.com
Naples' Palazzo Reale is the most prominent example of Baroque architecture in the city, designed by Domenico Fontana in the 17th century.
If you've ever dreamed of being a degenerate Roman emperor, this is your chance: wander in and dream yourself away among the bacchanalian exhibits of the "Secret Cabinet" - an erotic art exhibition at the Museum of National Archaeology in Naples.
The theatre was built in 1737 and, barring the reconstruction and a two-year economic crisis from 1872 to 1874, has not interrupted its seasons once in almost three centuries since then.
www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/Italy/Campania/Naples/Naples--Hotel.html   (847 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: States of the Church
Pius IX convoked at Rome a council of state composed of representatives of the various provinces, established a formal cabinet council, and sanctioned the formation of a militia in the States of the Church.
On 14 March, 1848, Pius IX after long hesitation decided to proclaim the fundamental law for the temporal government of the lands of the Holy See; as in other lands two chambers were to vote upon the laws, which were to be drawn up by a council of state.
King Francis II of Naples after a brave defence was forced to capitulate at Gaeta on 13 February, 1861, and retired to Rome.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14257a.htm   (12101 words)

  
 HangingPlane
María and her mezzo-soprano sister Pauline Viardot were first instructed by their father, the tenor Manuel García, and at five years of age María sang a child's part in Ferdinando Paer's Agnese in Naples.
Similar in content is II Enoch, or The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, which is preserved only in an Old Slavonic translation.
Cabinets were first used in Italy during the late Renaissance.
hangingplane.blogspot.com   (404 words)

  
 Pompeii, Ancient Italy
The city of Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many smaller places around the Bay of Naples, were Roman municipalities destroyed during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Re-opened, closed, re-opened again and then closed again for nearly 100 years, it was made briefly accessible again at the end of the 1960s (the time of the sexual revolution) and has finally been re-opened in the year 2000.
Minors are not allowed entry to the once secret cabinet without a guardian or a written permission.
www.magicaljourneys.com /Italy/italy-attractions-southern-campania-pompeii.html   (1576 words)

  
 naples italy (napoli) city of art in italy: local attractions, sightseeing near the hotel
The history of Naples is perfectly visible in its urban structure, which maintains especially in the old center, the sign of a city built over a period of 25 centuries, that embraces cultures from that of the Greek-Roman era to the Baroque period, passing through the influences of the Medieval, Angevins, Shavians, Spanish and French.
To see: the Mosaic of Alexander, the Bull Farnèse, the secret cabinet, many frescos, statues and objects coming from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
At 12 km of Naples, it is the largest active volcano of continental Europe.
www.hotel-villamedici.com /uk/attractions-uk.htm   (1197 words)

  
 Machiavellian foreign policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
But-the intimidation of Schlesinger-as-adviser went beyond silencing him in the cabinet room-it led him to produce a nine-page memorandum to President Kennedy, written shortly before the invasion of Cuba, in which he is as blunt as Machiavelli himself in urging deception of the public to conceal the U.S. role in the invasion.
When the Rand Corporation was asked to assemble a history of the Vietnam War, based on secret documents, Ellsberg was appointed as one of the leaders of the project.
A number of operatives of the CIA quit their jobs in the late sixties and early seventies and began to write and speak about the secret activities of the agency- for example, Victor Marchetti, Philip Agee, John Stockwell, Frank Snepp, and Ralph McGehee.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Foreign_Policy/Machiavelli_ForPol.html   (7234 words)

  
 The Letter of a philosopher
Remember, Sir, that the philosophers agree concerning the first principles that you must let alone all which flies from the Fire, and which is thus consumed; all which is not of one nature, or at least of the metallic original.
In fine, it is by the means of this operation that we see this precious fountain flow from the foot of this flourishing rose tree [or rose-garden for the original signifies either] from which only the philosophers have the good fortune to drain this celestial liquor.
As then the point which concerns the second preparation of the matter, and which contains the secret of the Philosophic Mercury is the most important of all, it is also this whereof the philosophers have been most jealous.
www.levity.com /alchemy/letphil.html   (3192 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Immediately, by order of the King of Naples Charles of Bourbon, all objects and artifacts were taken in secret to a secret place little by little as they were unearthed.
During the conquest of Naples by Italian patriot, General Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, the Italian Red Shirts Leader named his friend and comrade of war Frenchman Alexandre Dumas (the author of the "Three Musketeers") the curator of the Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Dumas discovered the secret cabinet and began classifying and cataloguing all the artifacts.
www.drsusanblock.com /pompei.htm   (402 words)

  
 Secrets of the Federal Reserve - Eustace Mullins' Secrets of the Federal Reserve
Published in 1952 by Kasper and Horton, New York, the original book was the first nationally-circulated revelation of the secret meetings of the international bankers at Jekyll Island, Georgia, 1907-1910, at which place the draft of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was written.
The reporters dispersed and the secret of the strange journey was not divulged.
Indeed, its only "meeting" was the secret conference held at Jekyll Island, and this conference is not mentioned in any publication of the Commission.
www.fdrs.org /secrets_of_the_federal_reserve.html   (15661 words)

  
 ZCPortal - The Secret Cabinet of Erotic Artifacts
While many writers are justifiably slamming the so-called “Religion of Peace” for its current terror crimes against the infidels of humanity, it’s far from time to let the so-called “Religion of Love” off the hook, my little friends.
This was brought home to me on a recent trip to Naples, Italy, where I went to visit the National Archaeological Museum--and the infamous Secret Cabinet of Erotic Artifacts.
If you visit Pompeii today (just down the bay from Naples) what you will see is a whitewashed version of history, a well-preserved Roman town gutted and transformed into a safe tourist destination, in much the same way that seedy, semen-stained Times Square in New York was cleaned up for the MTV generation.
www.zcportal.com /2002/1217/secretcabinet.asp   (799 words)

  
 Fodor's Travel Guides | Forums Messages
Not to be missed is the "Secret Cabinet" a room dedicated to erotic mosaics,sculptures,etc. found in Pompeii.
We took the train to Naples, got on a bus and went to the glass enclosed shopping area called Galleria Umberto I. We shopped, then strolled around the area and had a meal, then returned to the Naples train station for the trip back to Rome.
It was a nice full size bus that went for a drive through Naples, to Pompeii for lunch and a few hours tour of the ruins and then on to Sorrento for a brief stop.
www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34606051&numresponses=2&start=0   (440 words)

  
 [No title]
But the agents of the various Continental secret services have a way of making their own laws as they go along: and for these Lanyard entertained a respect little short of profound.
Sooner or later one is doomed to share one's secrets, however reluctantly, even unconsciously, with a wife, a mistress, a child, or with some trusted friend.
He no longer feared to be watched; and the very fact that, as far as he could see, he wasn't watched, only added fuel to his resentment, demonstrating as it did so patently the cynical assurance of the Pack that they had him cornered, without alternative other than to supple himself to their will.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/8lwlf10.txt   (19853 words)

  
 Travel Blog @ National Geographic Traveler
No trip to Naples would be complete without savoring the city's world renowned Margherita pizza—a mozzarella, basil, and red-sauced flatbread, named for an Italian Queen.
Naples was the site of the world's first pizzeria, where the heavenly peasant fare was first served to the masses in 1830.
Our guide, Dr. Marialaura Chiacchio, a Naples native and expert in 19th-century Pompeiian excavation, gently explained the great number of phalluses etched into stones that lined the city's streets; apparently the little guys symbolized fertility.The titillation continued as we ventured into the old center of Naples to visit the famed Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli.
www.nationalgeographic.com /traveler/extras/blog/blog0612_3.html   (2073 words)

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