[419] The Posilipo contains the famous grotto, at the entrance of which Virgil's tomb stands, and is pierced by a subterranean road to Pozzuoli.—T.
[420] The correct date of Chateaubriand's excursion to Liternum is January 1804.—B.
[421] Scipio Africanus died and was buried at Liternum, now Torre di Patria, fourteen miles from Naples.—T.
[422] Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria (circa 1015-1085), son of Tancred de Hauteville, succeeded his brother Humphrey as Count of Apulia in 1057, and became Duke of Apulia in 1059.—T.
[423] William I., first Norman Count of Apulia (d. 1046), surnamed Iron-arm, eldest son of Tancred de Hauteville.—T.
[424] Roger II. Count of Sicily, later Roger I. first King of the Two Sicilies (1093-1154), son of Roger I. Count of Sicily, twelfth son of Tancred de Hauteville. Roger became Duke of Apulia on the death of his cousin, William II. in 1127, and assumed the title of King of the Two Sicilies in 1130.—T.
[425] Tancred Prince of Galilee, later of Edessa (d. 1112), nephew of Robert Guiscard, and one of the most brilliant heroes of the first Crusade and of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.—T.
[426] Salerno.—T.
[427] Capri.—T.
[428] Ischia.—T.