A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Ætna, or, Monte-Gibello as it came in a letter written to his Majesty from Naples by the Right Honourable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an eye-witnesse of that dreadfull spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.
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A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Ætna, or, Monte-Gibello as it came in a letter written to his Majesty from Naples by the Right Honourable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an eye-witnesse of that dreadfull spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.
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Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, d. 1689.
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Edinburgh :: [s.n.],
re-printed in the year, 1669.
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"A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Ætna, or, Monte-Gibello as it came in a letter written to his Majesty from Naples by the Right Honourable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an eye-witnesse of that dreadfull spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. Published by authority." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66615.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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A LIST of the most considerable Towns and places Ruin'd and destroyed by the Dreadfull Earth-quake and Eruptions.
THe Town of Nicolosi wholly Ruin'd by the Earthquake.
The Towns of
...Padara
...Tre Castagne,
the greatest part destroyed by the Earth∣quake.
The Towns of
...La Guardia,
...Malpasso,
...Campo Rotundo,
...La Potielli,
St. Antonino,
St. Pietro,
...Mostorbiance,
...Montpileri,
...La Annunciata,
...Falicchi,
...Placchi,
Wholly Overflowed, Consumed and lost in this Fiery Inundation, with all the Lands belonging to them, no Foot∣steps of them remaining.
The Towns of
...Mascalucia,
The Towns of S. Giovanni de Galermo,
Ruin'd in part.
The Large Gardens and Vineyards of Albanelli Overflown and Destroyed.
The Famous Piece of Antiquity of Mareus Marcellus much Ruin'd.
Madonna de Monserrato destroyed besides many Castles, Farmes, and other Places, which have the same Fortune, whose Names we for brevity pass over.
FINIS.
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