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The corricolo, Alexandre Dumas

So I continued listening to the journey of Dumas in southern Italy. The corricolo is devoted to his stay in Naples and its environs. The author blends, as usual, the vicissitudes of his journey, Commenting on the places they visit and their history, his observations on the local lifestyle, and anecdotes that he tells. I admit I was a little harder to follow in the streets of Naples, in Sicily. Because I know Naples poorly, admittedly, because the city has probably changed more than the archaeological sites of Sicily, but also because historical anecdotes are more teeming, like probably turbulent history of this "Kingdom of the Two Sicilies . But I had a little trouble identifying which was the contemporary history of Dumas, and regard of earlier eras. Although rather than genuinely picturesque I have not been seduced by the many anecdotes about the "king Nasone" popular nickname of Ferdinand first of the two Sicilies, the rule certainly tormented, and founder of the Archaeological Museum of Naples, in the places where we visit Again, the Palazzo degli Studi , and full of treasures, including those from excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii.

Dumas obviously visited the ancient sites. The excavations of Herculaneum however was not in the state where they are now presented: it had to go down with torches in dark tunnels, which did not allow to realize the beauty of the various buildings, houses, or under palestra, and visibly discouraged Dumas. He arrived with a negative bias to Pompeii, whose nostalgic poetry seduces him visibly less than Gautier, which restores a more lyrical . I am unable to identify all the houses and tombs that we described, except of course the House of the Faun, where he engages in a refutation of the ten interpretations by scholars of the time on the mosaic of Alexander , the original was still in place. At least one its rebuttal is false, since many archaeologists today define the mosaic as the victory of Alexander the Great against Darius III, king of the Persians. He does not venture any theory, simply to demolish those of others, with some erudition (he had read the texts of the former), but it is a bit tedious ... and fat, to use a term of the time. However, his scholarship is invaluable for deciphering the signs in Latin, painted directly onto building walls, and reading the chapter he entitled "Small Posters " is both informative and tasty. After listening to this

reading offered by Horacio on audio.com Literature, I wanted to go take a look at Captain Arena, located between The Speronari and The corricolo , recounting the journey of Dumas in Calabria, where he lived a terrible earthquake in Cosenza. I did my part to dive into the chapter that recounts his visit of Paestum, the ancient site I was particularly delighted when I visited (well, my photos are still in a corner of my hard drive, I dropped out of the road online of my regular trips to Italy ...). But again, the searches were not as extensive at present, and especially there was no museum to show and explain the discoveries made on the site, to better understand its interest ...