Portici
Americannoun
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Somehow he managed to get Charles, Ferdinand’s father, to appoint him “keeper” of the royal museum at Portici, where the sculptures and the scrolls were kept.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
And the author of “Letters from Italy, 1776,” tells of the garment of a statue at Portici, edged with a border resembling fine netting.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
On the next day he proposed to ascend Vesuvius, and on the morning after await his Dian in Portici, when he had first seen from the top of the volcano the spectacle of sunrise.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
Boar-hunts of course, to represent how Neapolitan kings kill boars at Portici, and shoot wild-ducks on the Lago di Fusina.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
Our horses and donkeys were waiting for us where we had left them; and we rode rapidly back via the Hermitage, but over the plain of lava, instead of by the zig-zag road, toward Portici.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
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