Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . e is formed by the exquisitely curving Gulfof Manfredonia, and the dark woody heights of the Gargano rising above it. The road passes through Canosa with its Mediaeval fortress on the height, along theOfanto, through Lavello to Melfi and Venosa. Who would not feel some enthusiasm atthe name of Venosa, which is associated with the amiable Venus, and with Horace, whosebirthplace it is ? Vcnusia, the famous city of antiquity ! It was situated at a veryimportant point in the Roman world : the boundaries of Samnium, Lucania, and Apulia,and on the great road betwe
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . e is formed by the exquisitely curving Gulfof Manfredonia, and the dark woody heights of the Gargano rising above it. The road passes through Canosa with its Mediaeval fortress on the height, along theOfanto, through Lavello to Melfi and Venosa. Who would not feel some enthusiasm atthe name of Venosa, which is associated with the amiable Venus, and with Horace, whosebirthplace it is ? Vcnusia, the famous city of antiquity ! It was situated at a veryimportant point in the Roman world : the boundaries of Samnium, Lucania, and Apulia,and on the great road between Samnium and Tarentum. And when the Romans put LUC AN I A, APULIA, AND CALABRIA. 441 twenty thousand colonists into the town about the year 291 , and, a year or two later,strengthened it in other ways, Venusia became a formidable check upon the neighbouringdistricts, even to far into the south. Near at hand rises Monte Vulture with its doublepeak : an ancient volcano, extinct for the present, but probably not for ever. In the. THE LAKES OF MONTICCHIO. course of time it has been covered by woods and luxuriant vegetation. It is the sameVulture of which Horace so pleasantly narrates that in his childhood, Me fabulosit, Vulture in Apulo,Altricis extra limen Apulia?,Ludo fatigatumque somno Fronde nova puerum palumbesTexere: &c. &c. On the slopes of the mountain lie the little lakes of Monticchio in the hollow of acrater, and a few villages niched amongf the rocks. The view from the summit remindsus of that from Monte Cavo, and a romantic monastery (San Michele) serves to increasethe resemblance. From Barletta you traverse the flat line of coast to Taranto, and from the latter placeyou behold all the swampy shores on which some of the most famous of the Grecian citiesonce stood. They all owed their existence to the ruler of the seas, as did Taras, or 3 l 44? ITALY. Tarentum, founded by a son of Neptune, and Greeks were their first colonists. Tarentumhowever, was colonized by Do
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