There are first-person accounts of this volcano's eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.)
[DOC] [TLE] Campi Phlegraei - Special collections - University of Glasgow [PAR] Simultaneously destroyed by eruptions in 79 AD and subsequently buried by the 
ash ... King Ferdinand I funded their excavation, and they became a popular ... 
interior view of the crater of Mount Vesuvius, as it was before the great eruption of 
1767 ... volcanoes had been responsible for the mountainous landscape and rich
,... [DOC] [TLE] Volcanoes/Mount Vesuvius - Wikiversity [PAR] Mount Vesuvius was known for its eruption in AD 79 and was named after the ... 
172; 3.5 203; 3.6 472; 3.7 512; 3.8 1631; 3.9 1767; 3.10 1779; 3.11 1793 .... there 
were explosions, ash clouds, fissures at the base of the volcano ... An eruption in 
1793 has been documented by the painting on the right that .....