[Footnote 415: Francesco Durante (1684-1755), the religious composer, born at Naples 15 March 1684, director of the Conservatory of Santa Maria di Loreto at Naples.--T.] [Footnote 416: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), composer of _Il Matrimonio segreto_, born at Aversa, near Naples, 17 December 1749.--T.] [Footnote 417: Admiral Horatio Nelson, first Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), retired to Naples after the Battle of the Nile, in 1798, and remained there till 1800, when, on the expiration of Sir William Hamilton's embassy, he returned to England and received his peerage.--T.] [Footnote 418: Emma Lady Hamilton (_circa_ 1761-1815), _née_ Hart, originally a servant-girl of great personal beauty and loose character, became mistress of, among many others, Charles Greville and Sir William Hamilton, whom she married on the death of his first wife and joined at Naples, where he was Envoy from 176410 1800, and finally of Nelson. Lady Hamilton played a great part at the Court of Naples as the intimate friend of Queen Maria Carolina. She died in distress.--T.] [Footnote 419: The Posilipo contains the famous grotto, at the entrance of which Virgil's tomb stands, and is pierced by a subterranean road to Pozzuoli.--T.] [Footnote 420: The correct date of Chateaubriand's excursion to Liternum is January 1804.--B.] [Footnote 421: Scipio Africanus died and was buried at Liternum, now Torre di Patria, fourteen miles from Naples.--T.] [Footnote 422: Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria (_circa_ 1015-1085), son of Tancred de Hauteville, succeeded his brother Humphrey as Count of Apulia in 1057, and became Duke of Apulia in 1059.--T.] [Footnote 423: William I., first Norman Count of Apulia (_d._ 1046), surnamed Iron-arm, eldest son of Tancred de Hauteville.--T.] [Footnote 424: Roger II. Count of Sicily, later Roger I. first King of the Two Sicilies (1093-1154), son of Roger I. Count of Sicily, twelfth son of Tancred de Hauteville. Roger became Duke of Apulia on the death of his cousin, William II. in 1127, and assumed the title of King of the Two Sicilies in 1130.--T.] [Footnote 425: Tancred Prince of Galilee, later of Edessa (_d._ 1112), nephew of Robert Guiscard, and one of the most brilliant heroes of the first Crusade and of Tasso's _Gerusalemme Liberata._--T.] [Footnote 426: Salerno.--T.] [Footnote 427: Capri.--T.] [Footnote 428: Ischia.--T.] [Footnote 429: Procida.---T.] [Footnote 430: Miseno.--T.] [Footnote 431: Baja.--T.] [Footnote 432: Naples.--T.] [Footnote 433: CHATEAUBRIAND, _Les Martyrs_: Book V., the story of Eudorus.]