Torre Astura , formerly an island called by the ancients merely Astura ( Greek : Ἄστυρα ), is now a peninsula in the comune of Nettuno , on the coast of Latium , Italy , at the southeast extremity of the Bay of Antium , on the road to Circeii . The name also belongs to a medieval coastal tower in the same site, as well as to the river which rises at the southern foot of the Alban Hills , and has a course of about 33 km before flowing into the sea immediately to the southeast.
15-537: Astura could refer to: Torre Astura , a former island of Lazio, Italy, containing Roman villas Astura River [ it ] , Lazio, Italy Esla River , a river of Spain known to the Romans as Astura Astura (moth) , a synonym for Polygrammodes , a genus of moths of the family Crambidae Lancia Astura , a passenger car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Lancia between 1931 and 1939 Topics referred to by
30-583: A view both of Antium and Circeii, and to which he retired on the death of his daughter Tullia in 45 BC. It was from thence that, on learning his proscription by the triumvirs, he embarked, with the intention of escaping to join Brutus in Macedonia ; a resolution which he afterwards abandoned. We learn from Suetonius also that Astura was the occasional resort both of Augustus and Tiberius , but due to its unhealthy climate, both Augustus and Tiberius contracted here
45-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Torre Astura It was called Storas ( Στόρας ) by Strabo , who tells us that it had a place of anchorage at its mouth. It was on the banks of this obscure stream that was fought, in 338 BC, the last great battle between the Romans and the Latins , in which the consul Gaius Maenius totally defeated
60-521: The Circeian headland, and the only one which breaks the monotony of the low and sandy coast between them. The medieval castle of the Frangipani family , in which Conradin vainly sought refuge after the battle of Tagliacozzo in 1268, is built upon the foundations of a very large villa, of opus reticulatum with later additions in brickwork, and with a small harbour attached to it on the south-east. The castle
75-782: The Colosseum to the Annibaldi in the mid-thirteenth century. In 1268 Giovanni Frangipane, lord of Astura , betrayed Conradin , the teenage Duke of Swabia and last of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, who took refuge with him after his defeat at the Battle of Tagliacozzo . Frangipane arrested him and handed him over to Charles of Anjou , who beheaded him. The family had feuds in the Campagna south of Rome, among them Astura, Cisterna , Marino , Ninfa and Terracina , and later Nemi . The Roman branch of
90-400: The combined forces of Antium , Lanuvium , Aricia and Velitrae . At a much later period the little island at its mouth, and the whole adjacent coast, became occupied with Roman villas; among which the most celebrated is that of Cicero , to which he repeatedly alludes in his letters, and which he describes as locus amoenus et in mari ipso (a pleasant place and right by the sea), commanding
105-714: The descent of Dante from the family. The family claimed descent from the Roman plebeian family of Anicii ; however, the first mention of the family dates only from 1014, in a document relating to the Abbazia di Farfa . A parchment diploma of Otto I in the Frangipani archive at Castello di Porpetto , in Friuli , is dated 10 January 973. They played a significant part in the struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV , and briefly governed Rome from 1107 to 1108. In
120-612: The family was extinguished in 1654 with the death of Mario Frangipane, marquis of Nemi. Two presumed branches continued, one in Friuli and one in Dalmatia . The former had estates at Tarcento and Porpetto , and received patrician status in Rome. The latter descended from the lords of the island of Veglia (now Krk in Croatia ), who in the fifteenth century claimed to be related to the Roman family, took
135-628: The feud between the Orsini and Colonna families, they supported the Orsini. Their power was at its greatest when they achieved the election of Pope Honorius II in 1124. From no later than 1130 the Frangipani held the Colosseum of Rome, which they had fortified and which gave them strategic control of the approaches to the Lateran Palace , the papal residence, from the north and west; the family lost control of
150-446: The illnesses which proved fatal to them. Existing remains show that many of the Roman nobility must have had villas there. There is scholarly conflict as to whether there was a town of the name, as asserted by Servius . Up to at least the early 20th century, the remains of only one villa had been found on the island itself, but along the coast c. 1.5 km to the north-west a line of villas begins, which continues as far as Antium. To
165-588: The name Frangipani ( Frankopan or Frankapan) on the basis of documents provided by Pope Martin V , and from about 1530 used the Frangipane coat of arms ; Croatian historians dispute the historicity of this connection. The Frangipani had the right of burial at the church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome; their chapel – the Frangipani Chapel – in that church is dedicated to Saint Paul . From 1558 or 1559 until his death in 1566, Taddeo Zuccari worked there on
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195-488: The south-east, on the other hand, remains are almost entirely absent, and this portion of the coast seems to have been sparsely populated in Roman times. The island was at some time or other joined to the mainland by a bridge or causeway, and it thus became, as it now remains, a peninsula projecting into the sea. It is surmounted by a fortified tower, called the Torre di Astura, a picturesque object, conspicuous both from Antium and
210-514: The time of Pope Honorius III . 41°24′29″N 12°45′54″E / 41.408°N 12.765°E / 41.408; 12.765 Frangipani family The Frangipani family was a powerful Roman patrician clan in the Middle Ages . The family was firmly Guelph in sympathy. The name has many spellings, which include Frangipane , Freiapane , Fricapane and Fresapane . In his Trattatello in laude di Dante , Boccaccio traces
225-599: Was later a fief of the Caetani , the Orsini and the Colonna . Remains of buildings also exist behind the sand dunes, which possibly mark the line of the channel which separated the island from the mainland, and these may have belonged to the post-station on the Via Severiana . The Tabula Peutingeriana reckons Astura c. 10 km from Antium, which is rather less than the true distance. The island seems to have existed as such in
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