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Updated: June 11, 2025
Somewhere, not far off on the still sea that held the tiny islet in a warm embrace, a boy's voice was singing "Napoli Bella." Vere heard the song as she sat in the sun with her face set towards Nisida and the distant peak of Ischia; and instinctively she shifted her position, and turned her head, looking towards the calm and untroubled water that stretched between her and Naples.
"Wait till you've had the chance to take a good look at Sir Richard, and you'll answer your question yourself," the other man answered oracularly. Then he broke out again into sustained invective: "Hold up there, you little fool of a tight-rope-dancing, bella Napoli gorilla, and don't go dropping good, honest, Welsh steam-coal overboard into your confounded, stinking local sewer!
I shall always remember with pleasure the day when I met an unknown relation." "The Albergo di Napoli will not forget that Prince Saracinesca has been its guest," replied Giovanni politely, a smile upon his thin lips. He shook hands with both his guests, and ushered them out to the door with a courteous bow.
We may rest assured that if it had been so, Byron himself would have told us of it. A note to the Siege of Corinth is suggestive of his unequalled restlessness. "I visited all three Tripolitza, Napoli, and Argos in 1810-11; and in the course of journeying through the country, from my first arrival in 1809, crossed the Isthmus eight times on my way from Attica to the Morea."
The cathedral and monastic schools served to keep alive the ancient learning. Monte Casino stands pre-eminent as a great hive of students, and to the famous Regula of St. Benedict we are indebted for the preservation of many precious manuscripts. H. O. Taylor: The Mediaeval Mind, Vol. I, p. 251. De Renzi: Storia Documentata della Scuola Medica di Salerno, 2d ed., Napoli, 1867, Chap.
This is noisy Napoli itself, crowned with its rocky castle of St. Elmo! The vast plain, to the right, is that which held the enervating Capua and so many other cities on its bosom. To this succeeds the insulated mountain of the volcano, with its summit torn in triple tops. 'Tis said that villas and villages, towns and cities, lie buried beneath the vineyards and palaces which crowd its base.
We will go to the Bella Napoli." She did not say "yes" or "no." She was thinking at that moment of Craven and Adela Sellingworth. It was just possible that they might be there. But if they were? What did it matter? Minnie Birchington had seen her with Arabian. Lady Archie Brooke had seen her. Craven had seen her. And why should she be ashamed. Ought and ought not!
Harpe looked back at the peaceful scene in the flat below the sheep-wagon with its canvas top, the square, log cabin, the still heap beside it really there was no reason why she should not enjoy exceedingly the drive back to town. Out of the hills behind her came a golden voice that had the carrying qualities of a flute. "Farewell, my own dear Napoli, farewell to thee, farewell to thee."
"What know'st thou, Raoul, of Roma and Napoli, and of noble dames and rich gems?" asked the girl, smiling, the tenderness which had filled her heart at that moment betraying itself in her eyes. "What do I know of such things, truly! why, I have been at both places, and have seen what I describe.
There were women there in blue silk dresses with ear-rings as long as that" she measured their length in the air with her brown fingers "and there was a boy from Napoli, a real Napolitano, who sang and danced as we do not dance here. I was very happy that day. And I was given an image of Sant' Abbondio." She looked at him with a sort of dignity, as if expecting him to be impressed.
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