True, there had been raids on Naples -- but Naples was pretty far north on the opposite coast.

In the meantime, René had managed to reach Naples on 19 May 1438.

After the return of René to Provence, Alfonso easily reduced the remaining resistance and made his triumphal entrance in Naples on 26 February 1443, as the monarch of a pacified kingdom.

Baldassarre Cossa was born on the island of Procida or Ischia in the Kingdom of Naples into a noble but impoverished family.

He was involved in a brawl in Malta in 1608, and another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies.

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973.

His training was completed in close contact with the Neapolitan school of Verism as a pupil of Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista at the Naples Academy from 1872 on.

On 24 October 1922, the Fascist party held its annual congress in Naples, where Mussolini ordered Blackshirts to take control of public buildings and trains and to converge on three points around Rome.

He did not undertake further missions for Florence until 1365, and traveled to Naples and then on to Padua and Venice, where he met up with Petrarch in grand style at Palazzo Molina, Petrarch's residence as well as the place of Petrarch's library.

On Christmas Day he collapsed into a coma and died in a Naples hotel room on December 26, 1890.

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

There are also active volcanoes: Etna, in Sicily, the largest active volcano in Europe ; Vulcano, Stromboli, and Vesuvius, near Naples, the only active volcano on mainland Europe.

She was born on Tuesday 19 May 1474 at nine o ' clock in the evening in Ferrara, to Ercole I d ' Este, Duke of Ferrara and Leonora of Naples.

* 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.

Anatoli probably commenced his work on the commentary while in Provence, though he must have finished the fifth book at Naples about 1231 or 1232.

After a harrowing voyage, they arrived in the Bay of Naples on 21 October, only to be placed in quarantine for ten days.

Thereupon Belisarius with 7, 500 men invaded Sicily ( 535 ) and advanced into Italy, sacking Naples and capturing Rome on 9 December 536.

Benevento meanwhile grew to its greatest extent yet when it imposed a tribute on the Duchy of Naples, which was tenuously loyal to Byzantium and even conquered the Neapolitan city of Amalfi in 838.

In January 1821, on his return from Naples, Paganini met Rossini again in Rome, just in time to become the composer's substitute conductor for his opera Mathilde de Sharbran, upon the sudden death of the original conductor.

The Orsini were amongst the main feudatory | feudatories in Italy from the Middle Ages onwards, holding a great numbers of fiefs and lordships in Lazio and in the Kingdom on Naples.

On the death of Pope Innocent IV in 1254 he was elected pope at Naples on 12 December 1254.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

* May 15 – Battle of Calatafimi: Troops under Giuseppe Garibaldi defeat the army of Naples in Sicily, during the Second Italian independence war.

* March 15, 1815 – Joachim Murat, King of Naples declares war on Austria in an attempt to save his throne, starting the Neapolitan War.

* March 15 – Joachim Murat, King of Naples declares war on Austria in an attempt to save his throne, starting the Neapolitan War.

* July 29 – Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.

* R 1. 15 Le nozze di Peleo e Tetide ( 31. 5. 1768, Naples PR ) teatrale in musica

* November 15 – Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples ( b. 1393 )

Louis III, who also succeeded his father as king of Naples, died on 15 November 1434, leaving no children.

Charles revived the Family Compact with France on 15 August 1761 and joined in the Seven Years ' War against Britain in 1762 ; the reformist policies he had espoused in Naples were pursued with similar energy in Spain, where he completely overhauled the cumbersome bureaucracy of the state.

Totò was born Antonio Clemente on February 15, 1898, in the Rione Sanità, a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente from Sicily and Marquis Giuseppe De Curtis from Naples, who nevertheless did not legally recognize him until 1937.

The Neapolitan War between the Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples and the Austrian Empire, started on 15 March 1815 when Joachim Murat declared war on Austria and ended on 20 May 1815 with the signing of the Treaty of Casalanza.

The war was triggered by a pro-Napoleon uprising in Naples, after which Murat declared war on Austria on 15 March 1815, five days before Napoleon's return to Paris.

* Verdi, Lasagne Bolognese ' ( b Bologna, 10 Oct 1813 ; d Naples, 15 March 1867 )

Some 32, 000 French troops invaded Naples in January, in three columns under General Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, later a Marshal of France ; about 12, 000 men marched down the Adriatic coast, 15, 000 more attacked down the Apennines, which form the spine of Italy, and General Jean Louis Reynier, later a Marshal of France, led about 10, 000 troops, down the Appian Way.

The emperor promised to pay Matthias a huge war indemnity, and recognized him as the legitimate king of Hungary on the understanding that he should succeed him if he died without male issue, a contingency at this time somewhat improbable, as Matthias, only three years previously ( 15 December 1476 ), had married his third wife, Beatrice, daughter of Ferdinand I of Naples.

He was created Prince of the Empire in 1805, appointed Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves on 15 March 1806 and held this title until 1 August 1808, when he was named King of Naples and Sicily.

The Royal Opera House in London staged the work on December 15, 1966, followed by its Italian premiere in Naples in 1967.

During 1860 and 1861 " Sardinian " stamps supplanted those in use in each of the territories that joined Italy, with Modena, Parma, and Romagna changing over on 1 February 1860, and Naples not converting until 15 September 1862 ( although the local authorities had earlier printed stamps featuring the arms of Savoy ).

Aniello Falcone ( 15 November 1600 – 14 July 1665 ) was an Italian Baroque painter, active in Naples and noted for his painted depictions of battle scenes.

Ladislaus the Magnanimous (; ; 15 February 1377 – 6 August 1414 ) was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem and Sicily, titular Count of Provence and Forcalquier ( 1386 – 1414 ), and titular King of Hungary and Dalmatia ( 1390 – 1414 ).

The mid-16th century Chronicle of Gaspare Fuscolillo records that Isabella arrived in Naples on 15 October 1435.

Salvator Rosa ( 1615 – March 15, 1673 ) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence.

* Gilbert, Count of Montpensier, Viceroy of Naples died here on 15 October 1496.