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The Fontana della Sellaria or Selleria is a Baroque public fountain on piazzetta del Grande Archivio in
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
, Italy. It was commissioned in 1649 from
Onofrio Antonio Gisolfi Onofrio Antonio Gisolfi (died 1656, Naples) was an Italian engineer and architect, active from 1637 until his death. Life He was born in Naples and succeeded Bartolomeo Picchiatti as chief royal engineer to the Kingdom of Naples. He worked on the ...
by Íñigo Vélez de Guevara to commemorate the latter's suppression of the Neapolitan Republic. Aurelio De Rose, Le fontane di Napoli, Roma, Newton & Compton, 1994.


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Sellaria Baroque architecture in Naples Buildings and structures completed in 1649 {{Italy-struct-stub