Leyte (CVA 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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NAPLES NAPLES IS A SINGING CITY. Nowhere else in The world does The popuIar souI express iTseIT in song as iT does here.iSenTimenT simply and sponTaneousIy TeIT, The nos- Talgia oT Iove, all The conTagious sadness and ioy of man ThaT music is capaIoIe oT conveying Tind Their compIeTe expression only in The songs oT Naples. OTher ciTies may have Their characTerisTic music, buT is There one which has produced songs oT such worId-wide appeaI as O SoIe Mio, Torna a SurrienTo, SanTa Lucia LunTana, or Funiculi-Funicula? They are known To The whole world, IouT There are hundreds oT oThers ThaT are equaIIy charming. NapIes has Iong been The cenTer oT philosphic ThoughT in ITaIy, This ThoughT Tinding expression in The works oT greaT men, such as Giordano Bruno, Tommaso CampaneIIa, GiambaTTisTa Vice, and iTs inTIuence has been cc-nTinuous since The Time oT Thomas Aquinas, who died in I274, To ThaT oT BenedeTTo Croce, who is sTiII Iiving. 154 s

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Naples is also filled wiih places of arlrisiic and sciencfific inleresl' lor iis Nalional Museum is known io sludenls of archeology ancl of ancienl' mural arl ihe worlcl over. The greai maioriiy of Jrourisis however are principally aiiracied +o Naples by lhe charm ol ifs naiural beauly. They are wise in +his for all The liieraiures ancienl' and modern echo The fascina+ion of Naples, Jrhe Singing Cily. eeeee