The big and fertile plain crossed by the Volturno had already been chosen several times in Antiquity.  By the Osci and by the Etruscans, founders of the city of Calatia since the 8th century, and...

Rome’s greatest poet, the singer of his legendary origins, Publius Vergilius Maro was born near Mantua on the 15th of October 70 b.C., son of a small landowner. Even in his youth, he went to Naples...