Viator Vol, Signed (3 results)

Offprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 385-419, 7 fig., 1 map. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author to W.Haase. - Staple rusty, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: In 1594, the Elizabethan tourist Fynes Moryson traveled to southern Italy as part of his Continental tour. While visiting the Naples area, Moryson was most anxious to visit the volcanic land known as the Phlegraean Fields or Terra Laboris, which was much renowned for its salubrious mineral waters and for sites associated with Virgil, Cicero, and other notable figures from Greco-Roman antiquity. Often thwarted in his efforts to identify the sites, Moryson at last exclaimed in despair, The bath commonly called of Cicero, which the Physitians call the bath of Trituli . . . lieght neere the ruins of the Village of Cicero, called his Academy. . I know not whether this village (or rather Palace) had the name of Academy or not for I find in my notes a village of Cicero on the way from Naples to Pozzuoli and likewise the mention of this bath, and his Academy, neere the Lake of Avernus. . . . Others confound the Village and the bath, and putting both together so as to writing of these intricate caves under the earth my self am fallen into a labyrinth wherein I had much rather die than go back to Naples for searching the truth. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Offprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 385-419, 1 map, 8 fig. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to W. Haase. - A little curled, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: In 1594, the Elizabethan tourist Fynes Moryson traveled to southern Italy as part of his Continental tour. While visiting the Naples area, Moryson was most anxious to visit the volcanic land known as the Phlegraean Fields or Terra Laboris, which was much renowned for its salubrious mineral waters and for sites associated with Virgil, Cicero, and other notable figures from Greco-Roman antiquity. Often thwarted in his efforts to identify the sites, Moryson at last exclaimed in despair, The bath commonly called of Cicero, which the Physitians call the bath of Trituli . . . lieght neere the ruins of the Village of Cicero, called his Academy. . I know not whether this village (or rather Palace) had the name of Academy or not for I find in my notes a village of Cicero on the way from Naples to Pozzuoli and likewise the mention of this bath, and his Academy, neere the Lake of Avernus. . . . Others confound the Village and the bath, and putting both together so as to writing of these intricate caves under the earth my self am fallen into a labyrinth wherein I had much rather die than go back to Naples for searching the truth. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Condition: Gut. pp. 215-264, 1 map, 13 figs. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With a dedication by the author to Wolfgang Haase. - Binding rubbed, a bit light-margined, otherwise very clean. - From the text: Throughout the nineteenth century, and perhaps even later, many informed tourists visiting the legendary Phlegraean Fields near Naples counted among the by-gone glories of this area a lighthouse on a promontory at Capo Miseno. It was said to have guided sailors, merchants, and pleasure seekers into the bays and harbors which characterized this part of the Italian coast during the heyday of Roman dominion in the Mediterranean. Unknown to these tourists, however, no evidence survives to indicate that such a lighthouse ever existed in classical antiquity. Rather, the Misenene lighthouse seems to have been the creation of a series of mistaken associations by late antique/early medieval scholiasts who commented on passages from classical authors: in particular, Virgil, Horace, and Juvenal. This study will atttempt to unravel the tangled ancient and medieval evidence that led to the creation of the apocryphal lighthouse, and trace how the existence of a lighthouse at the site became an established tradition during the proto-humanistic activity of the fourteenth century. It will then follow the mutations of the tradition in later accounts of the region. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Offprint, stapled in paper cover.