Recent Photographs to Complement “Giuliani's Naples: a Walking Tour
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Recent Photographs to Complement “Giuliani’s Naples: A Walking Tour.” Web-copublished online at www.guitarfoundation.org/page/SbS02 1 MapRef-1 No. 18 Strada (now Via della) MapRef-6a. Interior of the Teatro Cavallerizza. The house where Mauro Mercadante today. Giuliani died, in the Chiaia quarter. Located at the Piazza Municipio, the Teatro Mercadante (MapRef-6)was known before 1870 as the Teatro del Fondo. Emilia Giuliani performed here twice. In the early Nineteenth century it was an important opera theatre. Located in the San Ferdinando quarter, it hosted the first performances of various operas by Gioacchino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti. MapRef-6b. Partial view of the exterior (front facade) of the Teatro Mercadante today. 2 MapRef-8a. No. 59 Via Francesco Girardi, the Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Ogni Bene dei Sette Dolori, where the funeral of Michele Giuliani, Mauro’s father, took place in Sep. 1823. It is in the Monte- calvario quarter. The narrow street called Spaccanapoli is nearby (see below). MapRef-8b. Interior of Chiesa di Santa Map Ref-8c. Spaccanapoli viewed from Maria ad Ogni Bene dei Sette Dolori the top. 3 MapRef-9 Site of the Teatro Nuovo at 16 Via Montecalvario. This was where Emilia made her debut, on 6 Feb. 1828. On the same occasion, Mauro played his last concert. MapRef-12a. The Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Matteo, in the Montecalvario quarter, at 44 Vico Lungo San Matteo. Here is where Luigi Guglielmi was baptized and where Maria Willmuth married Gabriele Amato. 4 MapRef-12b. and c. (above) Interior views of the Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Matteo. The baptismal font on the right is probably where Luigi Guglielmi was baptized. MapRef-13 No. 77 Vico Giardinetto, in the Montecalvario quarter, where Gaetano Guglielmi and Maria Sogner lived around 1807–1810. 5 MapRef-15a. and b. No. 52 Vico Lungo Avvocata, now called Via Giovanni Brombeis, in the Avvocata quarter. This is where Giovan Battista Guglielmi, the first of Emilia and Luigi Guglielmi’s children, was born in 1835. MapRef-16 A. Piazza Dante. This graceful façade stands opposite the Church of San Domenico Soriano, where Giovan Battista Guglielmi was baptized. It is in the in the Avvocata quarter. 6 MapRef-16 B. While the exterior façade of the Church of San Domenico Soriano is undistinguished, its interior is richly decorated. Photos by Nicoletta Confalone. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution – ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. 7 .