Le Guide Impossibili
5569 Vulcania
ovvero su e giù per il Vesuvio
Edited by Gianni Guadalupi. Texts by Enrico Cossovich, Charles de Brosses, Johann Gottfried Seume, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Plinio il Giovane e Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Girolamo Brusoni, Sir William Hamilton
1993 / 224 PAGES.
Language: Italian
Daring excursions by scientists, onlookers, men of letters and young ladies to the crater of Mount Vesuvius, between plumes of smoke, lava flows, lapillus showers and gusts of ash.
Once upon a time, Naples owed its European-wide renown of incomparable city to three main factors: the stunning beauty of its gulf; the excavations of Ercolano and Pompeii (which brought to light the two cities buried by lava and ash in the 79 A.D. eruption and that have proven to be an endless source of artworks and information on antiquity); Mount Vesuvius. As if to say: the “picturesque”, the “classic”, the “sublime”. All this was enough for the 1700s to become the century when the allure of the “Neapolitan Siren” experienced her swiftest rise to fame. Prominent figures from all over Europe, spellbound, describe their magical rapport with the most interesting volcano in the world.