Mantua

According to ancient tradition Mantua was founded by a Greek soothsayer, Manto, fled from Thebes, in Beozia, not to submit to the tyrant Creonte.
How did she arrive here? Sailing up the Po River to Governolo and from Governolo, against the current, on the Mincio River.
Mantua has Etruscan origin and became a Roman domain.

Here was born the most important Latin poet, Publio Virgilio Marone, representing the ethnic complex, of native, Etruscans, Gallic and Romans. Mantua renowned for its architectural splendour and medieval charm, is a town rich in history and ducal splendour of the Gonzaga, one of the most remarkable of Italian princely families.
Writers, painters, gentlemen, historiographers, visited Mantua and loved it.
Here Milton presents the "smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds"...

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