FROM THE HEART
In 600 B.C., when Greek settlers on the south-western coast of what we today call Italy founded a settlement in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, they called it Neapolis — the new city. It was to be new not just in location but in philosophy, a haven for those who were free of spirit and thought. It attracted minds such as the Roman poet Virgil, who asked to be buried there, and whose tomb, in the words of his contemporary Horace, “ennobled this elegant retreat, which attracted the lovers of repose and study from the noise, the smoke, and the laborious opulence of Rome”.
