Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory ("Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte"), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most outstanding factory for early Italian porcelain, the Doccia porcelain of Florence being the other main Italian factory. Capodimonte is most famous for its moulded figurines. The porcelain of Capodimonte, and later Naples, was a "superb" translucent soft-paste, "more beautiful" but much harder to fire than the German hard-pastes, or "a particularly clear, warm, white, covered with a mildly lustrous glaze". The Capodimonte mark was a fleur-de-lys in
House of the Savior, Naples the name "House of the Savior," and in 1770 a boarding school was opened. The boarding school became a hospital for Russian troops in 1799 and in 1812 it was elevated to the rank of high school. In 1860 by government decree the high school was abolished and its premises were annexed to the university. After a brief period that saw the return of the Jesuits before their renewed expulsion from the Kingdom of Naples, the University settled permanently in the complex under Joseph Bonaparte. It was in those years of French domination that imposing monuments were added to the