DK Travel : Naples & the Amalfi Coast : Top 10 Historic Figures

Naples & the Amalfi Coast : Top 10 Historic Figures

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1. Parthenope

The siren spurned by Ulysses gave her name to the first Greek colony, in 680 BC, now Pizzofalcone.
2. Spartacus

This runaway slave led a revolt of the oppressed from headquarters on Vesuvius.
3. Romulus Augustulus

The last emperor of the Western Empire died in Naples in AD 476.
4. Belisarius

The general was sent by the Byzantine Emperor to reconquer much of the Italian peninsula in the 5th century.
5. Pope Innocent II

When the Normans were making progress towards Naples in 1137 the city turned to the pope for help, but the Normans took him prisoner.
6. Queen Joan I

Joan (1343–81) was so loved by the people that they forgave her for plotting the murder of her husband.
7. Tommaso Aniello

This fisherman led a revolt in 1647 against the taxation policies of the Spanish rulers.
8. Maria Carolina of Austria

The sister of Marie Antoinette was the power behind the throne of her husband, Ferdinand IV (1768–1811).
9. King Joachim Murat

Napoleon’s brother-in-law ascended the throne of Naples in 1808 but was executed in 1815.
10. Antonio Bassolino

Naples’ left-wing mayor from 1993 to 2001 brought about a long-overdue clean up of the city (see The New Naples).