The big and fertile plain crossed by the Volturno had already been chosen several times in Antiquity.  By the Osci and by the Etruscans, founders of the city of Calatia since the 8th century, and...

That sunny morning of 10 August 1535 there was great excitement throughout the Charterhouse. The monks, the landowners and the many workers employed by them were mobilized to face an extraordinary...