how I spent my summer vacation (part two) view of Vesuvius and the Golfo di Napoli from the walls of Castel del Ovo Publication day for NAPLES by Avram Davidson, 11 September in Castel del Ovo, Napoli ——— on the way up Monte Epomeo, Ischia the view from the top : Vesuvius at far left horizon, Sorrento uplands, Capri (click for larger image) ——— Mandrakes, in Dioscorides (ca. 590), Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Ms. Vind. Gr. 1 Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, [Napoli 12 IV 1477], Biblioteca Nazionale di NapoliP. Francesco Lana, La Nave volante, dissertazione, [S.l., s.d., post 1470], Biblioteca dei Girolamini Coll. C F 3 19 Giacomo Leopardi, manuscript poem, L’Infinito, (1819), Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, M.S. C.L. XIII.22 decorative initial (white vine), in Museo Diocesano Salerno MS.9 ——— Vico room, Biblioteca dei Girolamini throne with mermaids and gryphons, Reggia Caserte ——— fascio ti sfascio : the writing on the wall, Salerno ———
how I spent my summer vacation (part two and a half) a short city walk & a visual gloss to NAPLES by Avram Davidson [for DVS]