Word: neapolitan
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...Cesti," wrote the Neapolitan landscape painter Salvator Rosa, "is the glory and splendor of the secular scene...
...Pope Pius VII consigned the bones to the care of a priest, Don Francis di Lucia, who had them enshrined in the church of Mugnano del Cardinale near Naples, where they promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration...
...still growing. Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini. He has measured the skinfolds (the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the "mealie-meal" eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen...
...hysterical childbirth, the logical termination of a phantom pregnancy that had been invisibly developing in response to Breuer's ministrations." But no one succeeded in freeing her from the basic source of her trouble-the fact that her beloved father had died of a heart attack in a Neapolitan brothel...
...Started in Naples. A Neapolitan holiday that is pleasurable enough, with Clark Gable, Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica, becomes occasionally hilarious, thanks to a scene-thieving nine-year-old called Marietto...