NAPLES PAST AND PRESENT

PREFATORY NOTE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I THE APPROACH TO NAPLES BY THE SEA

CHAPTER II THE ANCIENT MARVELS OF THE PHLEGRÆAN FIELDS

CHAPTER III THE BEAUTIES AND TRADITIONS OF THE POSILIPO WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON VIRGIL THE ENCHANTER

CHAPTER IV THE RIVIERA DI CHIAIA AND SOME STRANGE THINGS WHICH OCCURRED THERE

CHAPTER V THE ENCHANTED CASTLE OF THE EGG AND THE SUCCESSION OF THE KINGS WHO HELD IT

CHAPTER VI THE BARBARITIES OF FERDINAND OF ARAGON WITH CERTAIN OTHER SUBJECTS WHICH PRESENT THEMSELVES IN STROLLING ROUND THE CITY

CHAPTER VII CHIEFLY ABOUT CHURCHES WITH SOME SAINTS, BUT MORE SINNERS

CHAPTER VIII A GREAT CHURCH AND TWO VERY NOBLE TRAGEDIES

CHAPTER IX VESUVIUS AND THE CITIES WHICH HE HAS DESTROYED—HERCULANEUM, POMPEII, AND STABIÆ

CHAPTER X. CASTELLAMMARE: ITS WOODS, ITS FOLKLORE AND THE TALE OF THE MADONNA OF POZZANO

CHAPTER XI SURRIENTO GENTILE: ITS BEAUTIES AND BELIEFS

CHAPTER XII CAPRI

CHAPTER XIII LA RIVIERA D'AMALFI, AND ITS LONG-DEAD GREATNESS

CHAPTER XIV THE ABBEY OF TRINITÀ DELLA CAVA, SALERNO, AND THE RUINED MAJESTY OF PÆSTUM

APPENDIX

INDEX

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