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Vesuvius : a biography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarth, Alwyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Vesuvius (Italy) > History.
Volcanism > Italy > Vesuvius.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Campanian volcanoes : in the beginning
  • The Avellino eruption : a prelude to Pompeii
  • The eruption in AD 79 : the day of wrath
  • From antiquity to the Renaissance : tall stories
  • The eruption of Monte Nuovo : a new approach
  • The eruption in 1631 : the Counter Reformation
  • The old cities rediscovered : antiquity protected
  • Hamilton and Vesuvius : volcano-watching
  • Vesuvius as a tourist attraction : the Grand Tour
  • Persistent activity, 1822-1944 : scientific scrutiny
  • The Campi Flegrei : an eruption that failed
  • The future : the eruption to be avoided
  • Appendix 1. The two letters of Pliny the Younger to Tacitus about the eruption of AD 79
  • Appendix 2. Cassiodorus : Variae epistolae, letter 50.