The celebrated poet Lord Byron was one of many to be enticed and inspired by the beauty of Campello sul Clitunno:

 “But thou, Clitumnus! in thy sweetest wave Of
the most living crystal that was e'er
The haunt of river-Nymph, to gaze and lave
Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear
Thy grassy banks whereon the milk-white steer
Grazes - the purest God of gentle waters!
And most serene of aspect, and most clear,
Surely that stream was unprofaned by slaughters -
A mirror and a bath for Beauty's youngest daughters!"

From Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgramage" (1812-1818)