Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Campania

Properly the Terra di Lavoro of Italy, i.e. the plain country about Capua.

“Disdainful of Campania's gentle plains.”

Thomson: Summer.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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