Charles Dickens

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1) - Vesuvius

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2) - Pompeii

Craufurd Tait Ramage - The Assassination of Murat

Another account of the death of Murat (from The North American Review, May 1816).

William Gladstone- an 1851 review of his Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen on the State Prosecutions of the Neapolitan Government.

William Dean Howells  - Naples and Her Joyful Noise

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1)  - Vesuvius

Percy Bysshe Shelley (2)- Pompeii

Percy Bysshe Shelley (3) - A boat trip

Mark Twain

Pliny the Younger

from Harper's, 1855: unsigned excerpt on Naples

Charles Burney -  from The Present State of Music in France and Italy, published in 1771.

Arthur H. Norway - Excerpt from Naples, Past and Present.