I have seen him on a ferry boat on the Hudson River joke with the Italian bootblacks in the Neapolitan dialect and with complete success. |
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Its range is wide indeed, from operatic aria to rock fantasy via Neapolitan love song and pop ballad. |
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In the London National Gallery version, probably by a Neapolitan imitator of Caravaggio, Salome looks away with furtive pleasure. |
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There is, in fact, a tradition in Naples that the Neapolitan system of swordplay contains some Spanish elements. |
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As a matter of fact, Mascitti, a Neapolitan, came to Paris a decade earlier and changed his given name to Michel. |
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It will include waltzes, marches, operetta, Neapolitan songs and Irish classics. |
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He now says the money originated from Diego Attanasio, a Neapolitan shipping magnate, who was also a client. |
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I always go for the Neapolitan style margherita, and Portofino turns out a juicy, tender, textbook-perfect classic. |
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When Bajazet was created in Verona in 1735, Neapolitan opera had dethroned the almighty Venetian opera. |
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Nothing is more distinctive than the chaotic spectacle of Neapolitan street-life. |
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This Neapolitan gem has been expanded hugely in the past year, but has lost none of its charm. |
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Perhaps the most commonly recognized folk dance, the tarantella, for example, is Neapolitan, with little diffusion elsewhere in the peninsula. |
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Neapolitan workshops also produced scagliola, a composition substance that could closely imitate pietre dure decoration. |
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I would go with my dad to awards banquets, where we would politely eat cold chicken, hard green peas, and a block of Neapolitan ice cream. |
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As usual in his Neapolitan operas, there are also splendid opportunities for rival tenors. |
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The Neapolitan Mastiff that won best of breed at Crufts in 1994 was later discovered to have had plastic surgery. |
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Europe always was more like a tub of tutti-frutti than a slice of Neapolitan. |
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Ruffo was a Calabrian who had served in the papal curia but had found more favour at the Neapolitan court. |
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If Tony is really lucky, Silvio might treat him to a rendition of his favourite Neapolitan songs. |
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Another historic reference is made in Act III where the Neapolitan Dance becomes a cancan. |
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Very little use of antilogy is made by his contemporary Neapolitan chroniclers of the Conspiracy of Macchia. |
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These night tables were often decorated with the characteristic Neapolitan rosettes highlighted with ivory inlay. |
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A Neapolitan of modest origins, he tempers feral energy and vicious tantrums with a magnetic warmth that he switches on and off at will. |
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At this festival, one can taste the flavors of forgotten fruits, such as cornelian cherries, vulpine pears, Neapolitan medlars, and others. |
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A State Council served as the consulting body, comprised mainly of Neapolitan nobles and bourgeois. |
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Gathering supporters as he went, he chivvied the Neapolitan army out of Sicily and crossed the Straits of Messina on 22 August with the help of the Royal Navy. |
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This sensational third novel in her Neapolitan series is a reminder that she is one of the most talented writers working today. |
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The Neapolitan coastal resort of Baiae was favoured by rich Romans in Augustan times, although their marble villas were later overturned by an earthquake. |
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He frequently slips into Neapolitan dialect so thick that is incomprehensible. |
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The prime minister has also reportedly paid for diction lessons to smooth out her rough Neapolitan accent. |
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Thirty-eight mostly middle-aged people are slouching around with beers and coffee, watching Italian football on a large screen or playing Neapolitan cards. |
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Chromatic and borrowed harmonies in progressions are introduced, such as chords of the Neapolitan sixth, augmented sixth, and altered dominants, mediants and submediants. |
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In the meantime, he has also released a CD of Neapolitan love ballads he wrote for his long-time musical partner Mariano Acipella. |
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This week the cast will start working at a Neapolitan pizzeria called O'Vesuvio, near their apartment. |
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In Vento di Terra, a film by Italian director Vincenzo Marra, tragedy after tragedy is heaped upon Vincenzo, a Neapolitan teenager who is the central character. |
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Naples and Neapolitan cookery, with dialect terms, were featured again by Cavalcanti, who can be regarded as the first regional cookery writer of Italy. |
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A genuine Neapolitan pizza is round and no more than 35 cm across. |
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In May 1860 Garibaldi led an expedition of 1,000 ill-armed volunteers from the north to Sicily to support a Sicilian insurrection against Neapolitan rule. |
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In Naples in 1666, the Neapolitan composer Francesco Provenzale customised Cavilli's Statira for the local taste by adding more extended scenes for the comic characters. |
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In Genoa they like Ligurian paintings, in Naples, Neapolitan paintings. |
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Growing up in the Neapolitan sunshine, by the age of 13 he got behind his first drum kit which he played for years before buying and playing records. |
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In Italy, look out for varieties of elegantly grey-leaved cardoons and artichokes, zucchini, cavolo nero, flat Neapolitan parsley, Principe di Bologna tomatoes and rocket. |
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Caracciolo was hanged aboard the Neapolitan frigate Minerva at 5 o'clock the same afternoon. |
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The Cilentan dialect of Salerno is considered significantly influenced by both the Neapolitan and Sicilian language groups. |
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The Romanesco spoken during the Middle Ages was more like a southern Italian dialect, very close to the Neapolitan language in Campania. |
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From the 19th century tomato sauces became typical of Neapolitan cuisine and, ultimately, Italian cuisine in general. |
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Nelson spent the rest of 1799 at the Neapolitan court but put to sea again in February 1800 after Lord Keith's return. |
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Gladstone became concerned at the political situation in Naples and the arrest and imprisonment of Neapolitan liberals. |
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In disarray, the Neapolitan army fled back to Naples, with the pursuing French close behind. |
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The Neapolitan Republic was formed around Naples, but it lasted only five months before the enemy forces of the Coalition recaptured it. |
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Caracciolo was tried by royalist Neapolitan officers and sentenced to death. |
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John with a Neapolitan garrison and placed under the guarantee of third powers. |
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Giacomo Lacaita, legal adviser to the British embassy, was at the time imprisoned by the Neapolitan government, as were other political dissidents. |
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The Latin editions also have an epilogue with an epigram lauding Ferdinand II by the Neapolitan prelate Leonardus de Corbaria, Bishop of Monte Peloso. |
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Ferdinand allied with various Italian princes and with Emperor Maximilian I to expel the French by 1496 and install Alfonso's son, Ferdinand, on the Neapolitan throne. |
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The ensuing Neapolitan War between Murat and the Austrians was short, ending with a decisive victory for the Austrian forces at the Battle of Tolentino. |
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