Note 64 — VIRGIL AND THE LADY OF ICE AND WATER. [63]
Reading edition
In allusion, probably, to the “Madonna del Fuoco,” whose festival is annually celebrated at Forli, in the Toscana Romagna. The writer of this story was from the neighbourhood of Forli. “The Madonna del Fuoco is probably Vesta” (vide “Etrusco-Roman Legends,” by C. G. Leland).