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1475–1497 (see Pisano 2003, 53-56)
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Imprints: | Pietro da Eboli, Libellus de mirabilibus civitatis Puteolorum et locorum vicinorum ac de nominibus virtutibusque balneorum ibidem existentium (Neapoli: Sigismundus Mair Alemanus, 1507). Reprod. of the poem on back cover of Pisano 2003. |
— | Que in hoc Libello continentur, Octauiani carmen ne Aeneis Virgilij comburatur. Sulpicii Charta(giniensis) carmen ne Aeneis comburatur. Elogium Senecae. Elogium Guarini. Elogium Petrarcae. Epigramma Lucretiae. Elogium Christinae Patauinae. Pomponii Leti Carmen de ossibus gigantum. Iacobi Constantij Epigramma. Baptiste Guarini Carmen cur Iudei ferant litteram O. Sipontini Pom [= Pon(tificis)]: Car(men) pro laurea sibi ab Imp. da(ta). Et alia Lectione digna (Erffordie: Iohannes Knappe, ca. 1512), sig.Aiiiir. Digital copy (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek): here. |
— | Leandro Alberti, Descrittione di tutta Italia et isole pertinenti ad essa (Bologna 1550), p.159-60. Alberti visited Pozzuoli in 1526 (Pisani 2003, 46). |
— | Hieronymus Türler, De Peregrinatione et agro neapolitano libri II (Argentorati 1574), p.87-88. Türler visited Pozzuoli in 1554 (Pisani 2003, 46).
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— | Philipp Camerarius, Operae Horarum Subcisivarum, Sive Meditationes Historicae, Auctiores quam antea editae. Continentes accuratum delectum memorabilium Historiarum, et rerum tam veterum, quam recentium Centuria prima (Francofvrti 1602), p.382.
Digital copy (CAMENA):
here.
p.382: "In Italia quoque Puteolis vidimus ossa stupendae magnitudinis, cum hac inscriptione, cuius auctor perhibetur Pomponius Laetus ..." (Furthermore, in Italy in Pozzuoli we have seen bones of incredible size, with the following inscription whose author is said to be Pomponio Leto). Philipp Camerarius was in Italy 1563-65. |
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Pisano 2003, 28.
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Jerome Turler,
The traueiler of Ierome Turler deuided into two bookes. The first conteining a notable discourse of the maner, and order of traueiling ouersea, or into straunge and forrein countreys. The second comprehending an excellent description of the most delicious realme of Naples in Italy. A woorke very pleasaunt for all persons to reade, and right profitable and necessarie vnto all such as are minded to traueyll (Imprinted at London: By William How, for Abraham Veale, 1575), p.153-154 (translator not named). Digital copy: EEBO.
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| | Huc quicunque uenis stupefactus ad ossa Gigantum, |
| |  Disce cur ethrusco sint tumulata solo. |
| | | Tempore quo domitis iam uictor agebat Iberis |
| | Alcides captum longa per arua pecus, |
| 5 | | Colle Dicarchaeo clauaque arcuque Typhones |
| | Expulit, et cessit noxia turba deo. |
| | Hydruntum petiit pars, et pars altera thuscos. |
| | Interiit uictus terror uterque loco. |
| | Hinc bona posteritas immania corpora seruat, |
| 10 | | Et tales mundo testificatur auos. |
| | Whoever comes here, astounded to see the bones of the giants, |
| | | Learn why they are buried on Thuscan soil. |
| | At the time when Hercules had defeated the Spaniards |
| | | and drove the cattle through the wide fields, |
| 5 | | he ousted the giants with club and bow from the Dicarchean hill, |
| | | and the pernicious mob fled before the god. |
| | | Part flees towards Otranto, part towards Tuscany. |
| | All these dreaded men perished there. |
| | | Because of this a later age preserves the monstrous bones |
| 10 | | And bears witness before the world to such ancestors. |
J. Ramminger
(24 September 2008, last revised 27 July 2014)
