Pliny the Younger
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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known in English as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.
Detail from Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno by Angelica Kauffman, 1785
View of Bellagio in Lake Como. The institution on the hill is Villa Serbelloni, believed to have been constructed on the site of Pliny's villa "Tragedy."
Mount Vesuvius
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Mount Vesuvius is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Camp
Pliny the Younger
…administrative history and everyday life in the 1st century AD. Especially noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August or October 24 in AD 79, during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (Epistulae VI.16, VI.20), and one in which he asks the Emperor for…
Mount Vesuvius
City of Naples with Mount Vesuvius viewed from the Castel Sant'Elmo
The main cone of Vesuvius and the cliff of Monte Somma's caldera separated by the Inferno and Gigante valley
Famous view of Vesuvius and the historic Pine of Naples overlooking the city of Naples in the 19th century, by Giorgio Sommer