Although Naples was once the brilliant administrative and political center of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies—ruled over successively by the houses of Anjou, Aragon and Bourbon—today it is one of the least visited of the continent's great cities. It is well worth rediscovering, suggests Desmond Seward, and here he offers a history and a traveler's guide. Mining centuries of writings about the city, Seward also presents extracts from chronicles, memoirs, biographies, letters, and novels that shed light on the the most important and beautiful locales of Naples.