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Metauro

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Metauro (mātou`rō), river of the Marches, c.68 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Etruscan Apennines, central Italy, from a double source (the Meta and the Auro) and flowing NE into the Adriatic Sea near Fano. On its banks the Romans defeated (207 B.C.) the Carthaginians under Hasdrubal in the Second Punic War.


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Beyond the great rivers of the world that Battiferra wittily catalogues la Petrarque to announce what fame Ammannati will bring to the Arno -- and perhaps not just for the bridge, but for a growing list of accomplishments -- in other poems she varies the stock repetoire by singing of the Metauro and Isauro.
Two of these chapters work with the record of Tasso's experiences, recorded in letters and in the lyric, "Canzone al Metauro," and an identification of poetry and lamentation on the part of the narrator of the Gerusalemme liberata (1581).
com Editor's Note: This feature contains the edited text of a presentation made by Al Metauro, president and CEO of Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc.
 
 
 
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