The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-10-11
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1t may be interesting to your readers
to know where the present King Of
Naples has taken refuge from the wrath
and Indignation of his late oppressed
subjects. The success of Garibaldi is
heralded all over the world IS victory
of a down trodden people over heart
less tyrant. To him belongs the honor
Of ach, ewing this triumph, aud his name
will &c down to posterity with those of
Lafayette, De Kalb and Kosciusko.
We hear that the King of Naples has
gone to Gaeta, but were IL Gaeta? An
ancient city situated on bay of the
Mediterranean, about seventy Eve miles
south east from Rome, answers the
question. 1t is strongly fortified both
by nature and art, and has been long
known az the most impregnable city,
both by sea and land, in the kingdom.
1t is located on VIA. was called in an
cient times the "Appianway," and it ss
now, as it was two Thousand years ago,
the great thoroughfare or highway
between Rome and Naples.
The history of this town is interviewer
with many incidents which are inter
estiug to the tourist, the antiquarian
and the historian. For several miles
on either side, the shores, still besutiful
and with landscape 80 charming that
the traveller never forgets it, are cover
ed with the ruins of Roman villas,
|stAtuary and temples. Here still are
luxurious gardens filed with orange,
citron and lemon groves. From the
higher grounds, as the slow diligence
rumbles along its winding course among
these delightful gardens and vineyards,
the eye is enchanted with the distant
view of the bay of Naples, its fairy
islands, aud Mount Etna towering up
beyond. Here the Roman mobiles built
i their palaces and surrounded them with
all the elegance and refinement that art
and taste could invent. Among them
were statesmen, warrior and philoso-
pliers. The villa of Cicero is still
pointed out. There is every proof aside
from the writings of Pliny and others
to identify the spot. A marble monu-
ment marks the sp3t where the orator
met his death at the hand of him whose
llfe he had preserved.
But there are some past events con.
nected with the rise and fall of this CITY
TO which / intend to alluds. After abe
fall of the Roman empire, GAeta became
Greek city. Being liberal in her
government she became filled with refu
gees. These were from the wealthy
and educated classes of the Roman
nobility. She became powerful city
and her commerce extended to all parts
of the civilized world. Constantinople
was too far off to curb her growing
Ipower. She continued thus tor many
centuries. Both the IIombsrds and Sar-
scens failed to conquer her but in the
18th century she lost her liberties
The next change was her capture by
Don Pedro of Aragon. When the
French army, in l5el, invaded Naples,
| Frederick of Aragon was obliged to
relinquish his hold to Louis 18TH
Again, in 1904, the French, after q
long siege, were compelled to surrender
it back to the Spanish, whose forces
were commanded by the celebrated Con
salvo de Coruova. Again, in 1898, ii
was taken by the French. After the
treaty of peace, it was restored for 8
short time, but again taken by the
French in 1906, who were led on by the
rave General Massena. After the fal
Of Napoleon, it was again restored.
In latter times, so late as 1850, th'
place became invested with some inter
est on account of it's being the spot
which the Pope selected for safety
during the rebellion of his own subjects
He occupied for long time the palac'
IF the governor. These are some o
The ups and downs of Gaeta-- {
large populous city, now dwindlet
down to fifteen thousand inhabitants.
Those who are fond of reading thu
apochryphsl yet poetic works of Homer
Virgil and Horace will find in tn
Odyssey = fine description Of theibay o
Gaeta and its cities. It was here, o.
her shores, at the fountain of Astacia
where Ulysses met. for the first time
tee beautiful daughter of Antiphste
King Of the Laestrygones.