{"id":230,"date":"2013-08-29T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-08-29T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:52:54","slug":"canicus-in-italia-day-9-8-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Canicus in Italia: Day 9 (8 July 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally posted on July 8, 2012Canicus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Naples: <i>Duomo<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today, being Sunday I attended Mass at <i>Duomo<\/i>, the cathedral church of Naples. It is very much in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Somehow I still prefer the Gothic perpendicular of northern Europe and England. Mass was in Italian, with a longish Italian sermon. The \u201cShape of the Liturgy\u201d is the shape of the liturgy, which enables one to know what is being said even if in a strange tongue; Dom Gregory Dix was right about that. Still a short sermon is even more appreciated if one has no idea what is being said.<\/p>\n<p>After Mass I took a few pictures of the church which are today\u2019s photo journal.<\/p>\n<p>Then to one final lunch of Neapolitan spaghetti. I\u2019ll probably do my last pizza before returning to Dallas. Tomorrow I leave for a week in Rome. I learned last year that Rome is not the city for pizza \u2013 there is better pizza at Alfredo\u2019s in Dallas a couple of miles from where I live. This year\u2019s lesson is Naples is not the place for <i>gelato<\/i>. That\u2019s better in Rome, or at least easier to find.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I shopped for a newspaper. Seems the news stands do not carry English language newspapers, so I settled for a copy of Le Monde. There is absolutely no mention of Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>There is one page about Le Tour de France, but virtually the whole thing is about Lance Armstrong, his associates and doping.<\/p>\n<p>In front of the N<i>apoli Centrale<\/i> station there is a plaza dedicated to Garibaldi, the patriot revered for modern Italian independence and unity. My hotel is located on one side of the plaza. The plaza is totally torn up. Part of it will become an underground shopping mall, the other part a park. But right now it is a mess.<\/p>\n<p><i>Canicus Modius<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on July 8, 2012Canicus Naples: Duomo Today, being Sunday I attended Mass at Duomo, the cathedral church of Naples. It is very much in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Somehow I still prefer the Gothic perpendicular of northern Europe and England. Mass was in Italian, with a longish Italian sermon. The \u201cShape &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canicus in Italia: Day 9 (8 July 2012)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}