In
Virgil’s writings also, Cuma and the Averno lake are the mythological places
of “the beginning”; on the Phlegraean coast, Virgil quotes Miseno as the
place as where Aeneas’
trumpeter named Miseno died, just as in the Greek legend, Ulysses’ coxswain,
Baios dies here. Here, where the ground, for the effect of the seismic
activity, changes it’s form and therefore it is a place of beginning and end,
Averno and Elysian, the pilots scheduled to direct the routes, have no
reason to exist.
Virgil’s Face – a particular of the “School of Parnaso” – by Raffaello Sanzio