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Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ut architectural beauty ; and save the heavy, feudal-facedPalazzo Pubblico, hung quaintly all over with coats of arms, asa pilgrim with scallop-shells—so many silent traditions of thestirring days of the Italian republics—and richer still in itsMuseum of Etruscan antiquities ; save the neat little Duomoand the alabaster factories, which every one should visit, there isnothing of interest in modern Yolterra. Her glories are theEtruscan walls and the Museum, to neither of which the visitorwho feels interest in the early civilization of Italy, should fail topay attention. To begin with the walls. From the Unione, a few stepswill lead to the Pouta all Arco. I envy the stranger his first impressions on approaching thisgateway. The loftiness of the arch ; the boldness of its span ; - Front, dc Colon, p. 14, ed. 15S8. Pliny days.(N. H. III. 8) and Ptolemy (p. 72, ed. 3 For the post-Roman history of Volterra,. Bert.) also spe;ik of her as a colony in their see llepetti, V. pp. 801 et se^.
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From a Photograph rORTA ALL ARCO, VOLTERRA. chap, xliil) POETA ALL Alien. 143 the massiveness of the blocks, dwarfing into insignificance themediaeval masonry by which it is surrounded ; the venerable, yeisolid air of the whole; and more than all, the dark, featureless,mysterious heads around it, stretching forward as if eager to proclaim the tale of bygone races and events ; even its site 011 tin;very verge of the steep, with a glorious map of valley, river, plain,mountain, sen, headland, and island, unrolled beneath ; makeit one of the most imposing yet singular portals conceivable,and fix it indelibly on his memory. It is a double gateway, nearly thirty feet deep, united byparallel walls of very massive character, of the same masonry asthose of the city.4 This is decisive of its Etruscan origin ; yetsome doubt has been raised as to the Etruscan antiquity of thearch,—I think, without just ground. It has been objected thatthe mouldings of the imposts are too Greek in character to b

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