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PAGE NOT FOUND | Loyola University Chicago LibrariesIn this work Neapolitan Jesuit G. B. Mascolo records his observations of the eruption of Mount Vesuvio in 1631. The illustrations record the appearance of the volcano and the surrounding area before and after the eruption.
On a map there is Pompeii and Herculaneum (1631 Year )
You didn't answer my direct question and this link doesn't answer it either. Mascolo sketched the area before and after the 1631 eruption but there's no evidence that there was a thriving anachronistic Roman city that was destroyed in 1631.
Other posters have mentioned writings contemporary with the 79 eruption. To top that off you can now go walk the streets of Pompeii yourself. I've never had the pleasure but it's something I want to do very badly. The evidence I've seen and held (including quite a few artifacts excavated at Pompeii) indicate that it was a thriving first century city when it was destroyed.
Perhaps you're making the mistake of believing that a volcano is only allowed to erupt once. Vesuvius has plenty of eruptions that appear in historical records. According to my search the 1631 eruption killed about 3,000. Significant but not as many as the 79 which probably killed more than 20,000.
The city of Pompeii was not rediscovered until after the 1631 eruption (Pompeii was rediscovered in 1748). Any reference to Pompeii that is contemporary with the 1631 eruption can only refer to the Italian city of Pompei that shares a name, but not location with the original Roman city.
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