The art of Neapolitan pizzamaking won world heritage status on Thursday, joining a horse-riding game from Iran and Dutch wind mills on Unesco's culture list.
That was where southerners and Neapolitans came extensively into contact with northern Italians, and for the first time were exposed to choral singing; and for northerners it was the occasion when they came into first-hand contact with Neapolitan song as it circulated by word of mouth among southern soldiers.
Neapolitan pizza is different because it has a fluffy crust and a wet centre - that is why Neapolitans use a knife and fork and not their fingers when eating it.
Contemporaries usually agreed that the disease originated among some other ethnic or national group: the Italians blamed it on the French, the French on the Neapolitans, and most everyone blamed it ultimately on the New World.
Vesuvius completely buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79AD and experts predict it will erupt again between 2009 and 2019, meaning Neapolitans find it impossible to get any insurance.
Thus, La mimica was "one of the first books to attempt to forge a link between ethnography and archaeology" (xxi); De Jorio's interest in the gesmres of common Neapolitans reflects an "early manifestation" of a nineteenth century movement in folkloric studies of Naples (lxvii-lxx); his observation aat gesture is nota universal system of communication, but is shaped by local custom anticipates twentieth century scholarship (lxiv).
Mainly a showcase for the scripters' good feelings about Neapolitans, immigrants, the poor and unemployed, pic is too blatantly Pollyanna-ish for its multiple stories to be convincing.