PREFATORY NOTE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I THE APPROACH TO NAPLES BY THE SEA
CHAPTER II THE ANCIENT MARVELS OF THE PHLEGRAEAN 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
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 STABIAE
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 TRINIT- DELLA CAVA, SALERNO, AND THE RUINED MAJESTY OF PAESTUM
APPENDIX
INDEX
FOOTNOTE
NAPLES
BAY OF NAPLES FROM THE VOMERO
BAY OF NAPLES FROM THE VOMERO.
NAPLES
PAST AND PRESENT
BY
ARTHUR H. NORWAY
AUTHOR OF "HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DEVON AND CORNWALL"
"PARSON PETER," ETC.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
BY MAURICE GRIEFFENHAGEN
SECOND EDITION
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
First Published May 1901
Second Edition June 1905
TO MY FRIENDS
BARON AND BARONESS MARIO NOLLI
OF NAPLES, AND OF ARI, IN THE ABRUZZI
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
IN TOKEN THAT THOSE WHO ARE DIVIDED
BY BOTH SEA AND LAND
MAY YET BE UNITED IN THEIR LOVE FOR ITALY
