Now let us return to the city of Campanian Naples, in which there is a macellum, in the wall of which is exhibited by Vergil a bit of meedof such efficacy that as long as it is included there, no meat, no matter how old will stink and offend the palate.
There is in the Neapolitan state, Puteoli, in which Vergil for the utilitty of the people and perpetual admiratione constructed baths, built with wonderful artifice, showing the care of diseases both on the outside and on the inside. In each conch there are inscriptions indicating what disease the bath would cure. But envious phyusicians from Salerno, jealous of the baths destroyed the inscriptions lest the effects of the baths become widespread and they lose money
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How Vergil per the deslight of Naples composed the Georgics
Of the city of Naples, Virgil, very much more outstanding than all the poets..and was an officila there wrote a book called the Georgics in the time of which Marcellus, duke of Naples,, advisor and wise man and, with the aproval of the people, through his wisdom called Vergil into the New City, a fortress with a walled castle.
How Vergil through his magic arts took away the evil air of Naplaes
In that city the air of the swamp was bad and there were an abundance of flys, so much so that they caused fatalities. Vergil, for the great affection that he held towards Maples, executed magical arts and made a golden fly which made all of the other flys go away.
How he made a horse under a certain constellation and cured the infirmities of horses.
Also he had forgted a horse of metal under a certai constellation of staars, through the viewing of suich a horse, the horses became cured of their maladies...The officials of Naplaes, because of the great greif that they suffered because they lost the gain for the care of sick horses, went one nightand broke through the glass that protected the golden horse, Because of the sound of the glass breaking, the horse lost its ability to cure and remained
How Vergil took away the snakes of Naples
In naples, at the gate that goes to Nola, which is called Forcella, there is a rock constructed artificially in which is written that Vergil with great effort shut out and destroyed every generation of serpent and other harmful vermin.
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Once thus the lake was so crowded that in breating through the narrow paths, a sulfurous odor killed the birds flying nearby And whence the lake is called Avernus becaue it is without pleasure. Casear, knowning this, rendered the place pleasant by cutting down the forests.. Whence the Greeks called the place by name Avernos, as though the oder was harmful to birds. The same derivation is given by Nonius Marcelluscause it reacks of a doleful odor.