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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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fdeath and destruction, rises in solitary grandeuron the plain of Campania, ten miles to thesoutheast. To the south, across the bay, maybe seen the lovely isle of Capri, and on theeastern shores, many little Italian villages sur-rounded by beautiful vineyards and groves. Architecturally, Naples is inferior to mostcities of its size, but there are many buildingsof archaeological interest. The National Mu-seum contains a priceless collection of paint-ings, sculptures, coins, antiquities and variousobjects recovered from the buried cities of Her-culaneum and Pompeii. Among its sculpturesare the famous Farnese Bull and Farnese Her-cules (a picture of the latter is shown in con-nection with the article Hercules). There aremany castles reminiscent of medieval days, oneof the most interesting of which is the egg-shaped Castello deir Ovo. The so-called NewCastle (Castello Nuovo) has a sculptured arch,used as a portal, that ranks with the best me-dieval architecture of Southern Italy. Of about
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NAPLES, WITH VESUVIUS IN THE DISTANCE Naples is said to be the noisiest and mostdensely-populated city in Europe. Here Ital-ian life may be seen in its most sordid and itsmost picturesque phases. There is material inevery Neapolitan street, writes one observer,for an entire travel story on manners and cus-toms. The eastern section is the oldest partof the city, and the center of commercial life.Formerly its people were crowded together inunsanitary old tenements, on dirty, narrowstreets, but the government has partly remediedthese conditions, and the disreputable slumsand many of the filthy fiat buildings have dis-appeared. Streets have been widened, new sew-erage and water systems installed, and electriccar lines built. The newer western section liesalong the famous Riviera di Chiaia, a beautifuldrive skirting the bay for three miles. 300 churches, the Gothic cathedral, containingmany fine examples of painting and statuary,is the most notable. The city has numerous educational instit

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