Monte Zappi (also called Monte Gennaro or Pizzo di Monte Gennaro) is a peak in the

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, in Lazio, central Italy. It has an elevation of and is the highest peak visible from Rome looking westwards. It is located in the

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, in the

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territories of Palombara Sabina and San Polo dei Cavalieri.

History

It is likely identifiable with the ''Lucretili Mons'' mentioned by

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

as visible from his Sabine farm, and probably identical with the ''Mons Lucretius'' mentioned in the ''

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'',ed. Duchesne, i.183 which speaks of ''possessio in territorio Sabinensi quae cognominatur ad duas casas sub monte Lucretio'' in the time of Constantine. The name ''ad duas casas'' is supposed to survive in the chapel of the Madonna della Casa near Rocca Giovane, and the Mons Lucretilis is generally (and rightly) identified with Monte Gennaro, a limestone peak high, which forms a prominent feature in the view northeast of Rome. Excavations on the supposed site of Horace's farm were begun in September 1909.

References

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