A small selection out of the books I have consulted during the preparation of this work is given below:—
E. Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Dean Merivale: The Romans under the Empire.
Pliny’s Letters: (Church’s and Brodribb’s Translation, London, 1897).
J. Phillips: Vesuvius (Oxford, 1869).
C. Ramage: Nooks and Byways of Italy.
C. Lenormant: À Travers la Lucanie et l’Apulie.
W. J. A. Stamer: Dolce Napoli (London, 1878).
E. Neville Rolfe: Naples in 1888.
Constance Giglioli: Naples in 1799.