Naples ’44

Place · Natural feature

Monte Nuovo

Monte Nuovo
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Background

Monte Nuovo is a cinder cone volcano within the Campi Flegrei caldera, near Naples, southern Italy. A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, during the most recent part of the Holocene, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed. The event is important in the history of science because it was the first eruption in modern times to be described by a large number of witnesses.

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In Naples ’44

A small volcano near Pozzuoli that rose overnight in 1538 — part of the dense layering of ruin and legend Lewis dwells on during his tourist day around the Phlegraean Fields.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. July 12 1944
    A rare day off as tourist to Pozzuoli reveals a town strangely untouched by the war, calmer and more foreign-feeling than the rest of the Naples area.

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