""(...) we encounter the black Vulture with its four or five teeth. Water, fire: eruptions and floods have left their mark on the surrounding stones (...).

Leaving Rionero, we see an enormous boulder of green woodland rising darkly to the sky: it is the Vulture that comes into view again. We run at its feet as far as Atella where, entering the panorama dominated by the Monticchio, we lose sight of it (...)".