Un Viaggio al Vesuvio: Il Vesuvio visto attraverso diari, lettere e resoconti di viaggiatori

307 pp. Italian text. A collection of historical accounts of Mount Vesuvius, based on nearly 100 works, mostly from the 17th-19th centuries, but also including references dating as far back as the the first century A.D., and embracing the area's history from the disasterous eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, to the mid-20th century. Reproductions of illustrations throughout, including many in color, along with a number of color photographs and maps.