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5 unusual facts about Pompei


Carlo Cremonesi

Carlo Cremonesi (4 November 1866 – 25 November 1943) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Territorial Prelate of Pompei from 1926 to 1928, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935.

Cremonesi was later named Apostolic Delegate to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei on 9 March 1926, and the first Territorial Prelate of Pompei on 21 March 1926.

Domenico Sorrentino

He was appointed on 17 February 2001 to the rank of Archbishop and the post of Prelate of Pompeii, in effect a small diocese centred on a large and popular shrine of the Virgin in the modern township of Pompei, adjacent to the ruins of the Roman town buried in ancient times by volcanic eruption.

Francesco Piranesi

Piranesi accompanied his father on two trips to the ancient Roman ruins in Pompei, Paestum and Ercolano, first in 1770, and again in 1778.

Pino D'Angiò

Pino D'Angiò (born Giuseppe D. Chierchia in 1952 Pompei, Italy) is a noted Italo disco artist.


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Lampedo

Justinus Epitoma Historiarum philippicarum Pompei Trogi II.4.1-16

Les Filles du feu

When Octavie and the author meet again they visit Pompéi and the temple of Isis.

The Last Days of Pompeii

1913 – The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (Italy), directed by Mario Caserini.

1926 – The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (Italy), directed by Carmine Gallone.

1950 – The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei / Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi) (Italy/France), directed by Marcel L'Herbier and Paolo Moffa.

Victorin de Joncières

He composed some incidental music for Hamlet (performed both in Paris and Nantes) but found little success with two operas produced at the Théâtre Lyrique: Sardanapale (based on Byron, with Christine Nilsson, 1867) and Les derniers jours de Pompéi (from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1869).


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