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The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition...

Nikolaos of Otranto (ca. 1155/60 in Otranto – February 9, 1235), also known as Nektarios of Casole, was a Greek abbot and author. Nikolaos was probably...

In the summer of 1480, the Ottoman Empire invaded southern Italy, and laid siege to Otranto, finally capturing it on 11 August. This was their first outpost...

of Otranto, also known as Saints Antonio Primaldo and his Companions (Italian: I Santi Antonio Primaldo e compagni martiri), were 813 inhabitants of Otranto...

Otranto Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Otranto; Basilica Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunziata) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Italian city of Otranto...

archbishop of Otranto, and brought to Italy before 1198. His interest piqued, William then asked Nicholas of Otranto to translate for him the liturgy of Saint...

Archdiocese of Otranto (Latin: Archidioecesis Hydruntina) is a Latin archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy. The seat of the diocese is at Otranto Cathedral...

Castle of Otranto ("A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto")...

misattributed to Nicholas in later centuries, including some that have been identified as the works of Nicholas of Otranto and John Kamateros. Nicholas's earliest...

Buch-Kunstverlag, Ettal 1965 (Studia patristica et Byzantina, 11). A monograph of Nicholas of Otranto. with Peter Schreiner: Les Ghisi. Dynastes vénitiens dans l’Archipel...

Nicholas the Pilgrim (Italian: Nicola il Pellegrino; Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος ο Προσκυνητής; 1075 – 2 June 1094), sometimes Nicholas of Trani, is a saint...

the rank of rear admiral by 1918. He participated in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto and ascended to the position of commander-in-chief of the Navy...

transient success had an external impact on the liberation of Otranto on September 10, 1481. Nicholas' son, Progon had returned to Albania from Italy, to lead...

of Capua. Accompanying him was the bilingual south Italian monk Nicholas of Otranto as a translator. He was charged with making sure that the Venetian-born...

largest of Albania's islands, it is a designated military exclusion zone; it lies in a strategically important location between the Strait of Otranto and...

of the Year (London: Atlantic, 2013), 400pp. Anniversary edition of Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (Oxford University Press, 2014) Edition of Matthew...

northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from the Strait of Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to the northwest and the Po Valley...

question of apostolic poverty. The monks of the abbey have recently been shaken by the suspicious death of one of their brothers, Adelmo of Otranto, and the...

bones of the heroic Martyrs of Otranto were then buried by Alfonso with all honors, some of which in the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Otranto, later...

Mafalda of Hesse, is a German aristocrat and fashion designer. She is the eldest child of Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse and Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg...