Punch,  29 (1855), 187.

Neapolitan Magnanimity

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Heroism, Scientific Practitioners


    Unsurpised that the city of Naples has blocked a proposal to erect of statue of Macedonio Melloni because 'The Lion preys not on the dead: it is only the Hyæna that outrages the grave'.



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