CAMPANIA

From Agepedia

CAMPANIA ; the ancient name of a province of Italy, in the present kingdom of Naples, which, partly on account of its natural curiosities, including Vesuvius, the Phlegraean fields, the lake of A vermis, and partly for its remarkable fertility, was a favorite resort of the distinguished Romans, who built there magnificent countryhouses. Cuma, Puteoli, Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Caprese, Salernum and Capua, the principal cities of C, are names rich in classical associations. The Appian and Latin ways led into the interior of this charming province. Even now, C, or Terra di Lavoro, is the most beautiful and fruitful part of Italy; and no traveller can wish for a more delightful country than the fields of C, filled, in the month of April, with barley four feet high, and adorned with lofty poplars, which are connected by luxuriant vines, forming a canopy over the fields. " There," says Gothe, " it is worth while to till the ground."