page_title: Lake Nemi
section_title: The lake in art and literature
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Nemi / The lake in art and literature
context_page_description: Lake Nemi is a small circular volcanic lake in the Lazio region of Italy 30 km south of Rome, taking its name from Nemi, the largest town in the area, that overlooks it from a height.
context_section_description: Lake Nemi has been the subject for works by such artists as John Robert Cozens, George Inness, and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.
  Muriel Spark's 1976 novel The Takeover is set in three fictitious villas overlooking Lake Nemi.
  Lake Nemi inspired the first name of Norwegian comic character Nemi Montoya.
  The lake and its surroundings are featured in the game Assassin's Creed Brotherhood wherein the title character destroys a war machine commissioned by the work's antagonist Cesare Borgia and invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
  Mussolini led the effort to locate Caligula's devotional barges sunk 2000 years ago in Lake Nemi, see TheNYTimes April 9, 1908, then April 26, 1926, April 10, 1927, Feb 4, 1929
caption: Painting by John Robert Cozens (c. 1777)
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