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Which reminds me of an oldie-moldy that some of you may remember:
Empedocles,
That great soul,
Lept into Aetna
And was roasted whole.
yrs, tom ault
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:09:39 -0500
John Wickstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Another Sicilian legend states that the German Emperor, Frederick II
>(or his spirit, I presume; his body is in Naples), was thrown into
>Mt. Aetna. He was considered a heretic (at best) by the Roman popes
>and other Italian ecclesiastical interests. I can't find the source
>of this legend...Salimbene might have it.
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> jbw
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> Meg,
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> Something about that in Gervase of Tilbury, p. 32 in my French
>edition of "Le Livre des Merveilles", Paris, 1992. Gervase also told
>us that king Arthur has his palace in the Etna (Ibid., p. 151-152).
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> ANDRE YVES BOURGES
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