Il Galateo e Vaste

Galateo's personality, formed at the lively Accademia Pontaniana in Naples, binds his name to the literary work De situ Japigiae, written in 1507 and edited in Basel in 1558. The interesting work was written with the aim of making the vastness and characteristics of his Kingdom known to King Ferdinand II of Aragon, named "the Catholic". Describing the Salento territory, Galateo focuses on Vaste, passing along important news and advising a Messapic inscription of 3rd century B.C. whose traces were lost. This is one of the earliest finds associated with the ancient Messapic city, which has been studied for a long time, since 1981 and for more than 30 years, by the University of Salento, giving it back rich and impressive. The city visited by Galateo was instead connected to Holy Martyrs' devotion and contracted around the Tower and the Baron's Palace, as a precious store of history.