About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: People from Como, Alessandro Volta, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, Max Papis, Gianluca Zambrotta, Cosima Wagner, Floraleda Sacchi, Anna Cappellini, Riccardo Beretta, Matteo Mandorlini, Como San Giovanni railway station, Gabriele Oriali, Brumm, Fabio Casartelli, Gianfranco Miglio, Stefano Ticozzi, Nicolo Carandini, University of Insubria, Angelo Michele Colonna, Matteo Bogani, Antonio Sant'Elia, Paolo Sammarco, Corrado Passera, Giambattista Nolli, Massimo Mutarelli, Carlo Ferrario, Manlio Rho, Mario Radice, Nicolas Giani, Marco Mallus, Fabrizio Gatti, Gianni Leoni, Como Cathedral, Antonio Spallino, Manuela Dalla Valle, Mario Benzing, Stefano Botta, Basilica of Sant'Abbondio, Amantius of Como, Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Giuseppe Pontiggia, Liliana Ronchetti, Carolina Ferni, Servants of Charity, Paola Tagliabue, Massimo Vitali, Gianni Clerici, Luigi Borgomainerio, Casa del Fascio, Villa Olmo, Tempio Voltiano, Giovanna Almeida Leto, Daniele Danesin, Tommaso Malvito, Antonio Sacchi, Castello Baradello, Gardino Pellolio. Excerpt: Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD - August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred....
