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chap, xxiv.] ISCHIA—FARNESE. 463
aristocracy of Ischia, and is the evening resort of the
archpriest, the medico, the speziale, and other conscript
fathers of the town, who showed their politeness by urging
me, though impransus and way-worn, to a rubber of whist.
Two or three miles west of Ischia lies Farnese, a village
in a similar, though less imposing, situation, and bearing
the same evidences of Etruscan antiquity. As general on
ancient sites where population has continued to exist, the
sepulchres here in the cliffs have had their original character
destroyed by their conversion to cattle-stalls and hogsties.
Campanari has made slight excavations in the plain around
Farnese. The village is more decent in appearance than
Ischia, yet its osteria loses in comparison even with that of
La Farolfi. The Chigi palace here was occupied, at the
time of my visit, by Marechal Bourmont, the hero of
Algiers. Exiled from his country for the part he played
in " the three great days of July," he fixed his residence at
Farnese, exchanging the stirring life of the camp, and the
brilliant saloons of the Tuileries, for the seclusion, mono-
tony, and death-like tranquillity of an Italian village.
The antiquity of Farnese has long been acknowledged.
Mannert takes it to be Maternum, a station on the Via
Clodia, or Statonia ;1 but Cluver inclines to think it
Sudertum,2 a town only incidentally mentioned by ancient
writers, without any hint as to its locality.3 This is
1 Mannert, Geog. pp. 384, 388. Cra- Farnese, but is not so sure that it is
mer (Ancient Italy, I. p. 245) thinks it identical with Sudertum. Holstenius
was Maternum; which is thus marked (Annot. ad Cluver. p. 41) thinks Ma-
in the Peutingerian Table :— dernum the same as Sudernum, and says
Foro Clodo the site is now called « Maderni," on
the left side of the Fiora, a few miles
below Castro, and has many remains.
3 Liv. XXVI. 23. Pliny (III. 8)
calls its inhabitants " Subertani," though
some editions have it " Sudertani."
2 Cluver. Ital. Ant. II. p. 517. Cluver Ptolemy (Geog. p. 72, ed. Bert.) writes
is at least satisfied that Maternum is it SoiSipvov • its position, according to
Blera
XVI.
Tuscana
Villi.
Materno
XII.
Saturnia
XVIII.
Succosa
VIII.
aristocracy of Ischia, and is the evening resort of the
archpriest, the medico, the speziale, and other conscript
fathers of the town, who showed their politeness by urging
me, though impransus and way-worn, to a rubber of whist.
Two or three miles west of Ischia lies Farnese, a village
in a similar, though less imposing, situation, and bearing
the same evidences of Etruscan antiquity. As general on
ancient sites where population has continued to exist, the
sepulchres here in the cliffs have had their original character
destroyed by their conversion to cattle-stalls and hogsties.
Campanari has made slight excavations in the plain around
Farnese. The village is more decent in appearance than
Ischia, yet its osteria loses in comparison even with that of
La Farolfi. The Chigi palace here was occupied, at the
time of my visit, by Marechal Bourmont, the hero of
Algiers. Exiled from his country for the part he played
in " the three great days of July," he fixed his residence at
Farnese, exchanging the stirring life of the camp, and the
brilliant saloons of the Tuileries, for the seclusion, mono-
tony, and death-like tranquillity of an Italian village.
The antiquity of Farnese has long been acknowledged.
Mannert takes it to be Maternum, a station on the Via
Clodia, or Statonia ;1 but Cluver inclines to think it
Sudertum,2 a town only incidentally mentioned by ancient
writers, without any hint as to its locality.3 This is
1 Mannert, Geog. pp. 384, 388. Cra- Farnese, but is not so sure that it is
mer (Ancient Italy, I. p. 245) thinks it identical with Sudertum. Holstenius
was Maternum; which is thus marked (Annot. ad Cluver. p. 41) thinks Ma-
in the Peutingerian Table :— dernum the same as Sudernum, and says
Foro Clodo the site is now called « Maderni," on
the left side of the Fiora, a few miles
below Castro, and has many remains.
3 Liv. XXVI. 23. Pliny (III. 8)
calls its inhabitants " Subertani," though
some editions have it " Sudertani."
2 Cluver. Ital. Ant. II. p. 517. Cluver Ptolemy (Geog. p. 72, ed. Bert.) writes
is at least satisfied that Maternum is it SoiSipvov • its position, according to
Blera
XVI.
Tuscana
Villi.
Materno
XII.
Saturnia
XVIII.
Succosa
VIII.