Round 3: Tossup 18

A history of this location “in the age of Revolutions” by John Brewer details how visitors to it made use of landmarks like the Hermitage of Camaldoli. One of the three annual liquefactions of the blood of St. Januarius commemorates his supposed intervention in a 1631 event at this location. This was the more northerly of two locations about which William Hamilton wrote to the Royal Society. Thomas Cook and Son operated a cable railway at this location, the opening (10[1])of which was commemorated in the song “Funiculì, Funiculà.” An event at this location destroyed eighty-eight B-25 Mitchell bombers during the Allied occupation of Naples, while a much earlier instance buried Herculaneum in pyroclastic flow. For 10 points, name this (10[1])volcano whose eruption of 79 CE destroyed Pompeii. ■END■

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