Naples

November 30, 2016
Giovanni Lanfranco died 30 November 1647 in Rome.

October 30, 2016
Julia, the only child of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) was born on 30 October in 39 BCE.

October 18, 2016
Painter Luca Giordano was born on 18 October 1634 in Naples.

October 16, 2016
Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Oscar Wilde was born 16 October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland.

August 9, 2016
Baroque architect, sculptor, and marble master Dionisio Lazzari died 9 August 1689 in Naples.

July 29, 2016
The Futurist poet and painter Francesco Cangiullo died on this day, 29 July 1977.

July 24, 2016
Rainulfo II of Alife became the “rebel king” of the southern Italian peninsula following a victory on 24 July 1132 at the Battle of Nocera during which the Norman ruler, Roger II, was briefly deposed.

May 3, 2016
Night falls on a Neapolitan master: Baroque painter Francesco Solimena died 3 May 1747 at the age of 89 in the borough of Barra.

April 2, 2016
Italian architect Ferdinando Sanfelice died on 2 April 1748 in his hometown of Naples, where he rose to become one of the city’s leading architects.

February 1, 2016
Ashgate publishes Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy edited by Marc Treib and Luigi Latini.