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As if that weren't enough, in his popular 1695 travel guide to Italy, François Misson inflated these numbers!
He wrote that the citizens of Terracina sent Monte Casino 20,000 eels per year, in thanks to St. Benedict’s (apocryphal) intercession to break a Turkish siege. 2/2