The Neapolitan style, known as a round-back or bowl-back ( or " tater-bug ", colloquial American ) has a vaulted back made of a number of strips of wood in a bowl formation, similar to a lute, and usually a canted, two-plane, uncarved top.

Much of the development of the mandolin from Neapolitan bowl-back to the flat-back style ( actually, gently rounded and carved like a violin ) is attributable to Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

It has a thin, crisp base quite different from the thicker and softer Neapolitan style base.

Adriana Lecouvreur is the opera of Cilea which is best known to international audiences today, and it reveals the spontaneity of a melodic style drawn from the Neapolitan school combined with harmonic and tonal shading influenced by French composers such as Massenet.

However, some princely titles develop in unusual ways, such as adoption of a style for dynasts which is not pegged to the ruler's title, but rather continues an old tradition ( e. g. grand duke in Romanov Russia ), claims dynastic succession to a lost monarchy ( e. g. prince de Tarente for the La Trémoïlle heirs to the Neapolitan throne, or is simply assumed by fiat ( e. g. prince Français by the House of Bonaparte ).

He learned the art of the guitti, the Neapolitan scriptless comedians, heirs to the tradition of the Commedia dell ' Arte, and began developing the trademarks of his style, including a puppet-like, disjointed gesticulation, emphasized facial expressions, and an extreme, sometimes surrealistic, sense of humor, largely based on the emphatization of primitive urges such as hunger and sexual desire.

" The Song of the Poet " from Babes in Toyland provides variations on the lullaby " Rock-a-bye Baby " by presenting it first as a brassy march, then in Neapolitan style, and finally as a cakewalk.

Italian Renaissance style Villas fit with the regional Spanish Alta California ranchos history, the Mediterranean climate, " Neapolitan " sunlight intensity, and native plant community palette similarities.

* The large church of St. Francis, according to the legend constructed by the Saint himself in 1222, was in fact built by Frederick II, in very fine Gothic-Italian style, and contains paintings and sculpture by many of the most famous Neapolitan artists.

These variations include 3x3 ( which has three patties and three slices of cheese ), 4x4 ( four patties and four slices of cheese ), Neapolitan shakes, grilled cheese sandwich ( comes with everything that the burgers come with except meat, plus two slices of melted cheese ), Protein style ( wrap with lettuce ; comes with everything that the burgers come with except buns ; is not an actual veggie patty ), and Animal Style, both Protein and Animal Style are both house specialty that the company has trademarked because of its association with the chain.

He also wrote sacred choral music, including Tenebrae responsories for use during Easter and a psalm setting, all of which show a dignified and restrained approach, much in keeping with the Neapolitan style for liturgical music, and reflective of the work of the brothers Anerio and Gesualdo.

In some cases at shops offering both, normal ( thin crust ) New York style is distinguished as Neapolitan pizza although the relationship is distant.

New Haven-style pizza, locally known as apizza, is a style of Neapolitan pizza common in and around New Haven, Connecticut.

Neapolitan music has furthermore been highly influential, credited with the invention of the romantic guitar and the mandolin, as well as notable contributions to opera and folk standards.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

The Pope thought of using Cem as a tool to drive the Turks out of Europe, but, as the Papal Crusade failed to come to fruition, Cem was left to languish and die in a Neapolitan prison.

Lauded as a hero by the Neapolitan court, Nelson was later to dabble in Neapolitan politics and become the Duke of Bronté, actions for which he was criticised by his superiors and his reputation suffered.

Consular rule was interrupted by the Neapolitan occupation ( 27 November – 12 December 1798 ), which installed a Provisional Government:

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.

Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence, and Angelica Galante, a Neapolitan, the sixth of their thirteen children.

In 1326 Boccaccio moved to Naples with the family when his father was appointed to head the Neapolitan branch of his bank.

After 1488, no other appointments of women are known, although it is said that the Garter was granted to Neapolitan poet Laura Bacio Terricina, by Edward VI.

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.

Following her divorce from Sforza, Lucrezia was married to the Neapolitan Alfonso of Aragon, the half-brother of Sancha of Aragon who was the wife of Lucrezia's brother Gioffre Borgia.

Neapolitan ice cream was named in the late 19th century as a reflection of its presumed origins in the cuisine of the Italian city of Naples, and the many Neapolitan immigrants who brought their expertise in frozen desserts with them to the United States.

Under king Ladislaus he was among the few Neapolitan feudataries who were able to maintain their territorial power after the royal war against them.

Most of his fief were located in northern Lazio, but he entered in the Neapolitan orbit when in 1418 he was called by Sergianni Caracciolo to fight against the Angevine troops, which he defeated.

The figure of Punch derives from the Neapolitan stock character of Pulcinella, which was anglicised to Punchinello.

Boniface V was a Neapolitan who succeeded Pope Adeodatus I after a vacancy of more than a year.

The Neapolitan War was also concluded by the success of the Pope's ally the Aragonese Ferdinand.

In the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon notes that the disciples of Saint Severinus of Noricum were invited by a " Neapolitan lady " to bring his body to the villa in 488, " in the place of Augustulus, who was probably no more.

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.

* 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.

Neapolitan ice cream is made up of blocks of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream side by side in the same container ( typically with no packaging in between ).

" These are prepared by putting ices of various kinds and colors into a mold known as a Neapolitan ice box, which, when set and turned out, is cut into slices suitable for serving.

Rescued by two Neapolitan barons who had sided for Louis, Raimondello Orsini and Tommaso di Sanseverino, after six months of siege he succeeded in making his escape to Genoa with six galleys sent him by doge Antoniotto Adorno.

According to the rules proposed by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, the genuine Neapolitan pizza dough consists of wheat flour ( type 0 or 00, or a mixture of both ), natural Neapolitan yeast or brewer's yeast, salt and water.

Giacomo Lacaita, legal adviser to the British embassy, was imprisoned by the Neapolitan government, as were other political dissidents.

* February 13 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta, last stronghold of the Neapolitan King Francis II, is ended by Piedmontese forces.

When it was admitted that his private letters had indeed been opened, and its contents revealed by the Foreign Office to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments, Mazzini gained popularity and support among the British liberals, who were outraged by such a blatant intrusion of the government into his private correspondence.

* De Nostri Temporis Studiorum Rationae ( On the Study Methods of Our Times ) is published by Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico.