Merolla & de L'Ero, Napoli

[Frog in Suit]

Do you really regret Bonaparte?

I regret that he was such a disaster, considering that he spent much of his time waging war on the rest of Europe and eventually losing....
Would France have industrialized faster without his wars and his bureaucracy, and the demographic consequences of the wars?
He also behaved like a gang leader, putting all his family and henchmen on the various thrones of the countries he had conquered.

Frog in Suit

[Costi]

Well, it is still debatable whether Buonaparte, as royalists would have called him, was defeated by Wellington or Grouchy
Like Beethoven said when he allegedly decided to rip the front page of the Nineth bearing the dedication - "therefore he is just a man"...

[Frog in Suit]

I think our British friends will bear me out in my impresion that Napoleon ("L'Ogre de Corse") made on his contemporaries an impression not unlike that of Hitler in the XXth century. Of course, he never tried to annihilate whole populations because of their origins, but that is faint praise indeed.
Not, I would add, that I feel much sympathy for Metternich and the other restorers of the old, pre-revolutionary, order. Hence I would not call him "Buonaparte".
What is remarkable is the legend that followed Napoleon after his death, and led to his nephew gainig power less than forty years after his final defeat.
Frog in Suit

[storeynicholas]

Didn't his own ego, the Russian winter and some chaps called Nelson and Collingwood also play a part in bringing him down? Curious to think that, as HMS Bellerophon brought him into Plymouth, on his way to exile, he was still hoping for exile in England where so many of the Bonaparte family later lived out their lives. He has an especial resonance too for Brazil this year - the 200th anniversary of the Royal Navy's escort of the Portuguese royal family in their unique migration to Brazil to escape his influence. I have just sen FiS's last post too - yes, I am sure that NB was regarded, in England with much the same loathing as Hitler (although marking the differences between them), which is why Nelson's column is so very high and built right in the middle of the city which we all love so much - and, indeed which later even took in so many disenfranchised Bonapartes. returning to our sheep, it was in Naples that Nelson first saw Emma Lady Hamilton!
NJS

[Marcodalondra]

Hi All,

First post, on the forum.

just to let you know (not sure it has already been covered elsewhere) that the two have parted company, and whilst Mr Merolla kept the original shop, Mrs De L'ero has opened a new workshop called Satriano 5, in nearby Vico Satriano.

On a different angles, does someone have a picture of a matuozzo shirt being worn where is clearly visible where the shoulder/sleeve joint is?

Thanks,

M

[Merc]

N the Bourbons (I am forgetting more than I am remembering, I am sure-- one may prefer not to dwell on the brief Bonaparte presence--). They all left their mark (still visible, in many cases.
T

PS: and the food...

in a sense not so brief --i believe that napoleon was in fact fully descended from neapolitans on both sides..and i believe but may be mistaken that his name was originally buonaparte..but his parents changed it in corsica

[Costi]

Wasn't it a little further up North from Napoli?

[Sposi]

Dear members

I have register here as a lover on Napoli style, I was there last May and will be next one.

The middle age woman you pictured with the rolls of Riva is L´ero?


Is that a small shop that is very near to the Marinella shop on right part walking from Marinella to the center of the city?

The price on Riva is 250euros ? Same hand steps as Kiton?

Didn‚t know Merolla was close to Finamore shop, but I am not interested on tourist like brands anymore but for real arthisans with better price/quality as that woman seems to have. When I checked , Merolla was around the train station right not on via Calabritto.

[Sposi]

Any info on this tailor?

Has very attractive prices for my style

http://www.salvatoreargenio.com/immagini/IMG_2409.jpg