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He was born in Marianella, near Naples, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, on 27 September 1696. He was the eldest of seven children of Giuseppe Liguori, a naval officer and Captain of the Royal Galleys, and Anna Maria Caterina Cavalieri.
Pagani (Italian:; Neapolitan: ('e) Pavane, [(e) pɑˈvɑːnə]) is a town and comune in Campania, Italy, administratively part of the Province of Salerno, in the region known as the Agro nocerino-sarnese. Pagani has a population of 35,834, as of 2016.
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The term "Kingdom of Naples" is in near-universal use among historians, but it was not used officially by the government. Since the Angevins remained in power on the Italian peninsula, they kept the original name of the Kingdom of Sicily (Regnum Siciliae). At the end of the War of the Vespers, the Peace of Caltabellotta (1302) provided that the nam...
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Naples, which was the capital of the Duchy of Naples since the 7th century, surrendered to Roger II of Sicily in 1137, and was annexed to the Kingdom of Sicily. The Normans were the first to bring political unity to southern Italy in the centuries after the failure of the Byzantine effort to reconquer Italy. The Normans established a kingdom that included southern mainland Italy and the island of Sicily, which was primarily ruled from Palermo. The title of King of Sicily was established by th...
Angevin dynasty
Following the rebellion in 1282, King Charles I of Sicily (Charles of Anjou) was forced to leave the island of Sicily by Peter III of Aragon's troops. Charles, however, maintained his possessions on the mainland, customarily known as the "Kingdom of Naples", after its capital city. Charles and his Angevin successors maintained a claim to Sicily, warring against the Aragonese until 1373, when Queen Joan I of Naples formally renounced the claim by the Treaty of Villeneuve. Joan's reign was cont...
Aragonese dynasty
In 1442, Alfonso V conquered the Kingdom of Naples and unified Sicily and Naples once again as dependencies of Aragon. At his death in 1458, the War of the Neapolitan Succession (1458–1462) erupted, after which the kingdom was again separated and Naples was inherited by Ferdinand I, Alfonso's illegitimate son. When Ferdinand I died in 1494, Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, using as a pretext the Angevin claim to the throne of Naples, which his father had inherited in 1481 on the will of...
Pietro Ranzano (1428–1492), Italian humanist, Dominican friar, bishop of Lucera, historian1282–1442 Angevin flag of Naples1442–1516 Flag changed after Alfonso I of the House of Trastámarabecame King.The kingdom adopted the flag of the Spanish Empire when the Habsburg Charles Vbecame King of Naples in 1516.1714–1734 Flag changed after Charles VIbecame King.Colletta, Pietro (1858), History of the Kingdom of Naples, 1734–1825 (with a supplementary chapter 1825–1856), translated by Susan Horner, Edinburgh: T. Constable: vol. 1, vol. 2 (reprinted in one...Croce, Benedetto (1970), H. Stuart Hughes (ed.), History of the Kingdom of Naples, translated by Frances Frenaye, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (English translation of the revised 3rd edn. (...Ryder, Alan (1976), The Kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous: The Making of a Modern State, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198225355Aug 1, 2021 · Address: Piazza Sant’Alfonso 1, 84016, Pagani, Italy. Tel: +39 081 916054. Unfortunately, we are not aware of any official website for the Basilica. Find restaurants and hotels in Pagani, compare prices, and read what other travelers have to say at TripAdvisor
Aug 8, 2024 · Kingdom of Naples, state covering the southern portion of the Italian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to 1860. It was often united politically with Sicily. By the early 12th century the Normans had carved out a state in southern Italy and Sicily in areas formerly held by the Byzantines, Lombards, and Muslims.
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Dec 1, 2009 · On August 1, 1787, St. Alphonsus Ligouri died in Pagani, Campania in the Kingdom of Naples at age 90. A century after his death, he was canonized in 1839 and in 1871 he was declared a doctor of the church.
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Feb 20, 2024 · He was born in Marianella, near Naples, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, on 27 September 1696. He was the eldest of seven children of Giuseppe Liguori, a naval officer and Captain of the Royal Galleys, and Anna Maria Caterina Cavalieri.
