. …the shattered side Of thund’ring Etna, whose combustible And fueled entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke… John Milton, Paradise Lost Now let hot Aetna cool in Sicily And be my heart an ever-burning hell! William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus Some say its name derives from aitho, the Greek for ‘I burn’, others that it is a corruption of attuna, the Phoenician word for ‘furnace’. For poets, […]

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