ABSTRACT
Results deriving from an archival and bibliographical research are here presented, concerning the landslides occurred in Naples (Italy) from 1886 to 1996. Mass movements involved the volcaniclastic products cropping out in the urban area, essentially deriving from the Late Quaternary to Holocene explosive activity of the Phlegraean volcanic district. More than 190 landslides were extracted from existing catalogues, archives and scientific publications, and eventually analyzed in detail. Special attention was paid to triggering factors, which resulted to be essentially rainfall and human activity. Finally, those landslides reported in the sources as being induced by rainfall, and occurred between 1951 and 1996, were preliminarily analyzed, with the aim of verifying the reliability of information gathered from the sources.
