The
Crypt’s entrance is next to Virgil’s tomb. The working-class people’s
imagination attributed the construction as a prodigy of the poet, “Maestro and
Magician”, who would have created it in only one night. This belief was so
widely spread that even the King asked Petrarch about it while on a visit to
Naples, Petrarch replied that as far as he knew Virgil hadn’t even been one of
the quarry workers.
Pozzuoli
Tunnel – F.A. Letizia – XV111 century