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Procida, the Glossary

Procida (Proceta) is one of the Flegrean Islands off the coast of Naples in southern Italy.^[1]

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Campanian volcanic arc
Cumaean colonies
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Volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian

Allegory

As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.

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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (21 October 179028 February 1869) was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second Republic and the continuation of the tricolore as the flag of France.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Antipope

An antipope (antipapa) is a person who claims to be Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in opposition to the legitimately elected pope.

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Antipope John XXIII

Baldassarre Cossa (1370 – 22 December 1419) was Pisan antipope John XXIII (1410–1415) during the Western Schism.

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Aqueduct (water supply)

An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Campania

Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.

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Cape Miseno

Cape Miseno (Italian: Capo Miseno, Latin: Misenum, Ancient Greek: Μισήνον) is the headland that marks the northwestern limit of the Gulf of Naples as well as the Bay of Pozzuoli in southern Italy. Procida and Cape Miseno are Campanian volcanic arc and Phlegraean Fields.

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Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.

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Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.

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Comune

A comune (comuni) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

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Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated business entities that operate in various industries under one corporate group.

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Cumae

Cumae ((Kumē) or Κύμαι or Κύμα; Cuma) was the first ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the mainland of Italy and was founded by settlers from Euboea in the 8th century BC.

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Dario Franceschini

Dario Franceschini (born 19 October 1958) is an Italian lawyer, writer, and politician, member of the Democratic Party (PD), of which he briefly became leader in 2009.

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Duke of Naples

The dukes of Naples were the military commanders of the ducatus Neapolitanus, a Byzantine outpost in Italy, one of the few remaining after the conquest of the Lombards.

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Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,Oxford English Dictionary, "dynasty, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante (18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II (German: Friedrich; Italian: Federico; Latin: Fridericus; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.

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Game reserve

A game reserve (also known as a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals are hunted in a controlled way for sport.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Gothic War (535–554)

The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 to 554 in the Italian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily, and Corsica.

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Goths

The Goths (translit; Gothi, Gótthoi) were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.

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Graziella

Graziella is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Hayreddin Barbarossa

Hayreddin Barbarossa (Khayr al-Din Barbarus, original name: Khiḍr; Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa), also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1483 – 4 July 1546), was an Ottoman corsair and later admiral of the Ottoman Navy.

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Holy Week

Holy Week (lit) is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity.

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Il Postino: The Postman

Il Postino: The Postman ('The Postman'; the title used for the original US release) is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford.

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Ischia

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Procida and Ischia are Campanian volcanic arc, Geography of the Metropolitan City of Naples, islands of Campania, Phlegraean Fields and Volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian.

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Italian National Institute of Statistics

The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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John of Procida

John of Procida (Giovanni da Procida) (1210–1298) was an Italian medieval physician and diplomat.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the Bourbons.

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L'isola di Arturo

Arturo's Island (L'isola di Arturo) is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of islands of Italy

This is a list of islands of Italy.

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Literary award

A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.

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Magna Graecia

Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.

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Metropolitan City of Naples

The Metropolitan City of Naples (città metropolitana di Napoli) is a metropolitan city in the Campania region of Italy. Procida and metropolitan City of Naples are Geography of the Metropolitan City of Naples.

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Michael (archangel)

Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Monte di Procida

Monte di Procida is a small comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region of Campania, located about west of Naples, facing the island of Procida. Procida and Monte di Procida are Cities and towns in Campania, Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Naples and Phlegraean Fields.

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Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Procida and Naples are Cities and towns in Campania, Cumaean colonies and Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Naples.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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Parthenopean Republic

The Parthenopean Republic (Repubblica Partenopea, République Parthénopéenne) or Neapolitan Republic (Repubblica Napoletana) was a short-lived, semi-autonomous republic located within the Kingdom of Naples and supported by the French First Republic.

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Patrician (ancient Rome)

The patricians (from patricius) were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome.

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Phlegraean Islands

The Phlegraean Islands (Isole Flegree; Isule Flegree) are an archipelago in the Gulf of Naples and the Campania region of southern Italy. Procida and Phlegraean Islands are Campanian volcanic arc, islands of Campania, Phlegraean Fields and Volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian.

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Procession

A procession is an organized body of people walking in a formal or ceremonial manner.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Saracen

German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.

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Sicilian Vespers

The Sicilian Vespers (Vespri siciliani; Vespiri siciliani) was a successful rebellion on the island of Sicily that broke out at Easter 1282 against the rule of the French-born king Charles I of Anjou, who had ruled the Kingdom of Sicily since 1266.

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Southern Italy

Southern Italy (Sud Italia,, or Italia meridionale,; 'o Sudde; Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione or Mezzogiorno (Miezojuorno; Menzujornu), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)

The Talented Mr.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Types of volcanic eruptions

Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.

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Unification of Italy

The unification of Italy (Unità d'Italia), also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procida

Also known as Island of Procida.

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See also

Campanian volcanic arc

Cumaean colonies

Geography of the Metropolitan City of Naples

Islands of Campania

Phlegraean Fields

Volcanoes of the Tyrrhenian

References