Word: mantua
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...stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones of Livy. From here we turn southward to Mantua with its undying memories of Virgil, and thence to Ferrara, celebrated for the massive towers of its moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where we may see the lofty arch of the Castello Nuovo. Here the centre of classic interest lies in the tomb of Virgil, over which Petrarch...