Naples

It seems like the major trucking protests are now over, so they will not be affecting your trip.

And then as for the protests in Milan, Torino, Rome, Naples, Bologna, et cetera, just keep an eye out, check the news, that type of situation to see what's going on.

The weekends seem to be more sort of fervent than the weekdays.

Now the wine.

And she says that her great-grandfather, his name was Harlan, he was from Charleston, South Carolina, and he was also a World War II vet.

And in 1944, during the push up the Italian peninsula, he bought a heavy gold ring with a deep red stone from a street vendor in Naples, Italy, and he brought it back to Charleston in 1946.

Back at my hotel, I'm going to film the rest of the story here because it was too windy out there and I didn't bring a mic.

But in 1946, Harlan returned to South Carolina and he brought the ring with him to give to his wife as a gift for their anniversary.

It wasn't until his passing on his deathbed that he confessed how he had actually come into possession of this ring.

He had never bought the ring from any vendor.

In a bombed-out village just outside of Naples, he came across a young widow and her infant son who wore the ring on her finger and offered it to him in exchange for her life.

She told him that Estrega, her grandmother, who was an Italian witch, had placed a blessing on the ring to protect her family.

one hell of a fancy hunting lodge.

And by the way, just as a quick aside, there's another rather sumptuous and perhaps overly elaborate hunting lodge in Italy, and it is a building called Capo di Monte in Naples.

today one of the most celebrated museums in all of italy but when it was built in the 18th century was just the hunting lodge of the then king of naples charles and like castel del monte was built up on a hill so you know we have capo di monte the head of the hill in naples hunting lodge turned into royal palace turned into museum and here in puglia we have the castel del monte the castle on the map, which may have started either as a fortress or as a hunting lodge.

Again, we don't know.

Orestes took refuge in Pavia, but was soon captured and beheaded.

His little son, who fell into the hands of odoacer, was spared by the conqueror and allowed to retire to a palace near Naples with a large pension for his maintenance.

Of him we hear no more.

the year that followed the accession of odoacer was marked by two events of importance the first of these was the death of the old pirate king genseric the vandal with him passed away

Only a few fragments of Italy remained in the hands of the empire, chiefly along the coast, which possessed no attractions to people like the Lombards, unaccustomed to a

seafaring life.

These scattered possessions of the empire were ruled by the exarch of Ravenna, though the actual extent of his authority over Rome or Naples must have been very slight.

It would be a tedious task to trace in detail the history of the Lombard kingdom, which was re-established in 583 by the election of Autari.

Ironic, wasn't it, that the same adults who had always warned us about the dangers of snakes and rabies, and took exception to us throwing real spears at each other for a bit of entertainment, were now prepared to run the gauntlet of hand grenades and roadside bombs so as to get their hands on cheap goods that would shortly constitute contraband.

Next we headed for Naples, but were caught on the way in a severe storm off Crete, and the ship lost travelling time.

Gale-strength wind blowing across the deck, we children devised a great game.

By dragging a closed canvas deck-chair to the windward side of the deck, we would lie down and wait for the ship's roll to provide us with a downhill run, before opening the chair on its side to act as a spinnaker.

A member of the crew then spoiled all the fun by pointing out that when lying down, we kids could easily slide under the lowest rail, so we were abruptly ordered to stay inside.

As compensation, we were rewarded with another two showings of the magnificent seventh.

The first morning of our three days in Naples was spent at the ancient ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, where my new interest in antiquity, already ignited by Gedeon Fort Jesus, ran wild.

And in those days, we shared both Roman towns with no more than about fifty other people.

This individual hasn't died, but is critically injured as far as I know.

Little news also out of the Naples area.

Naples is obviously in the region of Campania.

There's a seaside town in Campania, Torri Annunziata.

If you know anything about the Camorra, which is, again, mostly my, at least, Italy knowledge.

before entering on his duties he permitted himself a vacation in naples and sorrento in munich he found the royal court theatre bogged down in a morass of routine the musical direction of that establishment though in the capable hands of hermann levy was unfired by real enthusiasm let alone true inspiration the first of strauss's official assignments was the direction of boydieu's opere comique jean de paris and a quantity of similar old and harmless pieces one promised duty which augured well was a production of wagner's boyhood opera die feene he would probably never have been promised anything so rewarding had not the conductor for whom it had been intended in the first place fallen ill but even this unusual prize was in the end snatched from his grasp after he had presided over the rehearsals at the last moment the direction of the wagner curio was assigned to a certain fischer there was a managerial conference concerning the matter at which we are told strauss was like a lioness defending her young but the intendant put a stop to the argument by announcing that he disliked conducting in the bulow style and that moreover strauss was becoming intolerable because of his high pretensions for one of his youth and lack of experience meanwhile the composer made the most of leisure he did not really want by occupying himself with more or less creative work one of his editorial feats of this period was a new stage version of gluck's iphigenie en tauride manifestly inspired by wagner's treatment of the same master's iphigenie en more important still was his first really large-scale work aus italian to which he gave the subtitle symphonic fantasy for large orchestra he had completed the score in eighteen eighty six and on march two eighteen eighty seven he conducted it at the munich odeon to his uncle horberger he wrote an amusing account of the first performance at which it appears moderate applause followed the first three movements and violent hissing competed with hand clappings There has been much ado here over the performance of my fantasy, Strauss wrote his uncle, and general amazement and wrath because I too have begun to go my own way.

And his biographer, Max Steinitzer, told that the composer's father, outraged by the hisses, hurried to the artist's room to see his son, and found him, far from disturbed, sitting on a table dangling his legs.

One detail the composer of this symphonic Italian excursion failed to notice, namely that in utilizing the tune Finiculi Finicula for the movement depicting the colorful life of Naples, he was quoting, not as he fancied a genuine Neapolitan folk song, but an only too familiar tune by Luigi Denza, who lived much of his life in a London suburb.

be all this as it may strauss had more to occupy his thoughts than the fortunes of his italian impressions to which he had given musical shape in eighteen eighty six eighty seven he composed besides the sonata in e flat for violin and piano and a number of fine lieder among them the lovely and uplifting breit the tone poem macbeth least known of them all he revised it in eighteen ninety and on october thirteenth of that year conducted it in weimar but macbeth has been completely overshadowed by the next tone poem of earlier opus number but later composition the glowing romantic vibrant don juan which has a spontaneity and an indestructible freshness that give it a kind of electrical vitality none of the orchestral works of their composer's early manhood quite rival unless we except the masterpiece of humour till eulenspiegel itself a different proposition it had been the powerful impressions made on the composer by some of the shakespearian productions of the dramatic company in meiningen which gave the incentive for macbeth In the case of Don Juan, the moving impulse was the poem of Nicholas Lenau, whose real name was Nimbush von Stalinau, and who described the hero of his work as one longing to find one who represented incarnate womanhood, in whom he could enjoy all the women on earth whom he cannot as individuals possess.

unable in the nature of things to achieve this tall order lanos don juan falls prey to disgust and this disgust is the devil that fetches him Strauss gave no definite meanings to specific phases of his music, though he was not to want for interpreters, and one of them, Wilhelm Mauke, found it preferable to discard the model supplied by Leinau and to discover in the tone poem the various women who inhabit Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Seated on the presidential platform are, left to right, Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, Madam Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, President of the General Assembly, and Mr. Andrew Cordier, Executive Assistant to the Secretary General.

This 150,000 kilowatt dual cycle boiling water reactor located 35 miles north of Naples, Italy on the Garigliano River was built by General Electric under the United States-Euratom Joint Program.

It achieved criticality on June 5, 1963.

Even before the International Agency became an accomplished fact, the United States sought on its own to implement the spirit of President Eisenhower's proposal.

It's him in his latter years.

There's a Diego Maradona mural in Naples in Italy.

It's in the Spanish Quarter apparently.

I don't know where that is, but I've got a picture of it in front of me.