Mantua me genuit: Calabri rapuere: tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces.

“The epitaph,” says Eustace, Classical Tour , I 499, “which, though not genuine, is yet ancient, was inscribed by order of the Duke of Pescolangiano, then proprietor of the place, on a marble slab placed in the side of the rock opposite the entrance of the tomb, where it still remains.”

Forsyth, Italy , p. 378, says:⁠—