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...

The ancients identified it as one of the theaters of the Gigantomachie between the gods of Olympus and the giant sons of Gaea. In that ardent "phlegraean" land, the elements manifested themselves at...