Notable quotes

“Naples is the flower of paradise. The last adventure of my life.”
— Alexandre Dumas, as quoted in "Naples and Paris, the true capitals" by Marco Cesario, in ANSAmed.info (24 October 2007)
“I won't say another word about the beauties of the city and its situation, which have been described and praised often. As they say here, "Vedi Napoli e poi muori! — See Naples and die!" One can't blame the Neapolitan for never wanting to leave his city, nor its poets singing its praises in lofty hyperboles: it would be wonderful even if a few more Vesuviuses were to rise in the neighbourhood.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, journal entry (3 March 1787), published in Italian Journey [1786 - 1788]; as translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (1962)
“All things in Naples are arranged with as much civility as possible.”
— Norman Lewis, in Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth (1978)
“Naples and Paris: the two only capitals.”
— Stendhal, as quoted in "Naples and Paris, the true capitals" by Marco Cesario, in ANSAmed.info (24 October 2007)
“Another revolution! Naples free and all of Italy in insurrection! How wonderful has been the march of the human mind in these last thirty years … so may it be till the last link of the chains of slavery is broken and the banner of freedom waves over the whole earth!”
— Frances Wright, in a letter to William James MacNeven (1820)

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Key facts

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