Calabria quotes

Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. Mantua brought me life,Calabria death; now Naples holds me: I sang of flocks and farms and heroes.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
  BC  Epitaph on his tomb near Naples, supposedly dictated on his deathbed. Quoted in DonatusVitaVergilii,'Life ofVirgil'.