The Naples Riviera

THE
NAPLES RIVIERA

BY
HERBERT M. VAUGHAN, B.A. (Oxon.)
AUTHOR OF “THE LAST OF THE ROYAL STUARTS”

WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY
MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN

METHUEN & CO
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1907

TO
G. L. L.
IN MEMORY OF
MANY PLEASANT DAYS IN THE SUNNY SOUTH
THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR

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	CHAPTER I	PAGE
	Introductory	1
	CHAPTER II
	The Vesuvian Shore and Monte Sant’ Angelo	8
	CHAPTER III
	La CittÀ Morta	38
	CHAPTER IV
	Vesuvius	66
	CHAPTER V
	The Corniche Road	100
	CHAPTER VI
	Amalfi and the Festival of St Andrew	126
	CHAPTER VII
	Ravello and the Rufoli	152
	CHAPTER VIII
	Salerno	172
	CHAPTER IX
	Paestum and the Glory that was Greece	198
	CHAPTER X
	Sorrento and its Poet	221
	CHAPTER XI
	Capri and Tiberius the Tyrant	249
	CHAPTER XII
	Ischia and the Lady of the Rock	275
	CHAPTER XIII
	Puteoli and the Grandeur that was Rome	295
	————
	Index	321

		PAGE
	Charcoal Carriers, Amalfi	Frontispiece
	A Capriote Fisherman’s Wife	16
	Road near Castellamare	30
	Monte Faito, Castellamare	37
	The Forum, Pompeii	46
	La Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii	58
	Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples	80
	Pozzano	101
	Evening at Amalfi	124
	Amalfi	132
	In the Valley of the Mills, Amalfi	140
	Amalfi: Piazza and Duomo	148
	Ravello: Il Duomo	156
	A Street in Ravello	163
	Minori at Sunset	170
	On the Road To Ravello	186
	The Temple of Neptune, Paestum	204
	Afternoon, Sorrento	230
	Faraglioni Rocks, Capri	249
	Capri From the Villa Jovis	254
	In the Blue Grotto, Capri	262
	A Gateway, Capri	274
	On the Piccola Marina, Capri	288
	Ischia From Castellamare (Sunset)	294
	On the Beach	306

A small selection out of the books I have consulted during the preparation of this work is given below:—

E. Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Dean Merivale: The Romans under the Empire.

Pliny’s Letters: (Church’s and Brodribb’s Translation, London, 1897).

J. Phillips: Vesuvius (Oxford, 1869).

C. Ramage: Nooks and Byways of Italy.

C. Lenormant: À Travers la Lucanie et l’Apulie.

W. J. A. Stamer: Dolce Napoli (London, 1878).

E. Neville Rolfe: Naples in 1888.

Constance Giglioli: Naples in 1799.

C. L. Sismondi: Histoire des RÉpubliques Italiennes.

L. Alberti: Descrizione di tutta l’ Italia (Venetia, 1596).

C. Mills: The Travels of Theodore Ducas (London, 1822).

Les DÉlices d’Italie (Paris, 1707).

Nuova Guida de’ Forastieri in Napoli, etc. (1751).

Count Stolberg: Travels through Italy and Sicily in 1756.

A. H. Norway: Naples, Past and Present (London, 1904).

E. Busk: Folk-Songs of Italy.

J. A. Symonds: Sketches and Studies in Italy.

Catherine Phillimore: Studies in Italian Literature (London, 1891).

T. A. Trollope: A Decade of Italian Women (London, 1859).

G. Boccaccio: Il Decamerone.

A. Mau: Pompeii: its Life and Art (New York, 1899).

J. Fergusson: Handbook of Architecture (London, 1859).

Franz von Reber: History of Ancient and MediÆval Art (New York, 1882).

E. Jameson: Sacred and Legendary Art (London, 1879).

J. Elworthy: History of the Evil Eye (London, 1888).

N. Valletta: Cicalata sul Fascino detto Jettatura (Napoli, 1819).

A. Canale: Storia dell’ Isola di Capri.

G. Amalfi: Tradizioni ed Vsi nella Penisola Sorrentina.