Between Salt Water and Holy Water
Subtitle: A History of Southern Italy
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: July 10, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393328677
First sentence: At the high point of Roman civilization, in the late first century BC, the great poet Virgil immortalized in his Aeneid the heroic journey of Aeneas from Troy to Italy, where his descendants would found Rome, the city destined to universal empire.