CAPTAIN, THE. A play by Fletcher, assisted by either Jonson or Middleton, or both, pub lished in folio in 1647. Its earliest recorded pro duction is May 20. 1613, when llemings's com pany appeared in it at Court. It contains the dainty lyric "Come hither, ye that love." CAPUA, It. pron. kiVp675-h. An archiepiscopal city of south Italy, in the Province of Caserta. in a fertile but unhealthful situation on the left bank of the Volturno, 1$ miles north of Naples (Map: Italy, J 6). As the only fort ress guarding Naples on the north, it was of great importance to the former Kingdom of Naples. ]n the Seventeenth Century its defenses were greatly extended and improved by Vauban. The cathedral, dating from the Eleventh Century, but almost entirely modernized, has in the entrance court granite columns from ancient Casilinum, on whose site Capua was built, in the Ninth Cen tury: in the Church of the Annuuziata are an cient bas-reliefs: and beneath the arch of the Piazza de' Giudici—the marketplace—are many ancient inscriptions. The 31useo Campano con
tains reliefs and inscriptions from the amphi theatre of ancient Capua. ancient and mediteval sarcophagi, and various statues, heads, coins. etc. On the bridge over the Volturno—restored in 1756—is a statue of Saint Neponme: the Torre \lignana inside. and the Cappelli). de' Morti out side the town, commemorate the bloody attack on Capua in 1501 by Cisar Borgia. Not far from the city is the field where the soldiers of Gari baldi and of Piedmont defeated King Francis 71. of Naples. October 1. 1860. For ancient Capua, see SANTA MARIA CAPUA VETERE. Population. in 1SS1, 14.000: in 1901. 14,285.