John Evelyn ed il racconto del Vesuvio

Inserito da: · Ottobre 9, 2022

John Evelyn ed il racconto del Vesuvio

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Aniello Langella

 

The next day being Saturday we went four miles out of towne on mules to see that famous volcano Mount Vesuvius. Here we passe a faire fountaine cal’d Labulla, w ch continually boyles, suppos’d to proceed from Vesuvius, and thence over a river and bridg, where on a large upright stone is engraven a notable inscription relative to the memorable eruption in 1630. Approaching the hill as we were able with our mules, we alighted, crawling up the rest of the proclivity with great difficulty, now w th our feete, now with our hands, not without many untoward slipps which did much bruise us on the various colour’d cinders w th which the whole mountaine is cover’d, some like pitch, others full of perfect brimstone, others metaliq, interspersed with innumerable pumices (of all w ch I made a collection), we at the last gained the sum’it of an excessive altitude; turning our faces towards Naples, it presents one of the goodliest prospects in the world; all the Baiae, Cuma, Elysian Fields, Capreae, Ischia, Prochita, Misenus, Puteoli, that goodly citty, with a great portion of the Tyrrhan Sea, offering themselves to your view at once, and at so agreeable a distance, as nothing can be more delightfull. The mountaine consists of a double top, the one pointed very sharp, and com’only appearing above any clouds, the other blunt. Here as we approach’d, we met many large gaping clefts and chasms, out of which issued such sulphureous blasts and smoke, that we durst not stand long neere them. Having gain’d the very summit, I layde myself down to looke over and into that most frightfull and terrible vorago, a stupendious pit of neere three miles in circuit and halfe a mile in depth, by a perpendicular hollow cliff (like that from the highest part of Dover Castle), with now and then a craggy prominency jetting out.

Aniello Langella – John Evelyn ed il meraviglioso spettacolo del Vesuvio – vesuvioweb 2020.pub

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  1. Jana Haasová ha detto:

    Articolo molto interessante sul Vesuvio, bella incisione e foto di piante laviche del Vesuvio (Valeriana rossa).
    Grazie e saluti Jana

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