Etruscan Places

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447487826
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
This fascinating volume contains a collection of travel writings by D. H. Lawrence, first published after his death in 1932. In this text Lawrence compares the vibrant world of the Etruscan civilization with the dilapidation of Benito Mussolini's Italy during the late 1920s. The Etruscan civilization is the relatively modern moniker given to the civilization originating from ancient Italy in the areas of modern Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio. Not much is known of the Etruscans, and in this fascinating exploration of their culture, Lawrence pieces together what he can in order to furnish a unique insight into this lost race. The chapters of this volume include: D. H. Lawrence, Cervereri, Targuinia, The Painted Tombs of Tarquinia, Vulci, and Volterra. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Sketches of Etruscan Places

Author: D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795351577
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
From the author of The Rainbow, a travelogue of his journey through central Italy during the reign of Mussolini. Written in 1927 after visiting several Etruscan cities in central Italy, six of the seven essays contained in Sketches of Etruscan Places were posthumously published in 1932. The seventh, “The Florence Museum” is published here for the first time, along with forty-five illustrations reproduced with D. H. Lawrence’s own captions. The second part of this volume contains eight additional essays about Florence and the Tuscan countryside.

Etruscan Places

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
"Etruscan Places" is a historical and anthropological guide into the world of the Etruscans people. The Etruscans, as everyone knows, were the people who occupied the middle of Italy in early Roman days and whom the Romans, in their usual neighbourly fashion, wiped out entirely in order to make room for Rome with a very big R. They couldn't have wiped them all out, there were too many of them. But they did wipe out the Etruscan existence as a nation and a people. However, this seems to be the inevitable result of expansion with a big E, which is the sole raison d'étre of people like the Romans. The main source of information we have today about the Etruscan way of life is the artifacts found in their tombs, which forms the focus for this book.

Etruscan Places

Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher: NIE
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description

Votives, Places, and Rituals in Etruscan Religion

Author: Margarita Gleba
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.

Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521007016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Seven essays D. H. Lawrence wrote after visiting Etruscan cities in central Italy.

Etruscan Places

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910901281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
D H Lawrence and wife Frieda explore the Etruria ruins of 1920s Tuscany. Part travel narrative, part lyrical musing, the work blends Lawrence's customary grumbling tone with fine descriptive writing and brims with passion for history and place. Almost a series of letters from a traveling friend, these fascinating essays bring a little-known culture to life. -- Welsh Books Council

Etruscan Places

Author: Maurizio Martinelli
Publisher: Scala Group
ISBN: 9788881171576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description

Power and Place in Etruria: Volume 1

Author: Simon Stoddart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108915906
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
This volume fills a gap in the study of an important, yet neglected case of state formation, by taking a landscape perspective to Etruria. Simon Stoddart examines the infrastructure, hierarchy/heterarchy and spatial patterns of the Etruscans over time to investigate their political development from a new perspective. The analysis both crosses the divide from prehistory to history and applies a scaled analysis to the whole region between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Arno and Tiber rivers, with special focus on the neglected region between Populonia on the coast and Perugia and the north Umbrian region adjoining the Apennines. Stoddart uncovers the powerful places that were in dynamic tension not only between themselves, but also with the internal structure constituted by the descent groups that peopled them. He unravels the dynamically changing landscape of changing boundaries and buffer zones which contained robust urbanism, as well as less centralized, polyfocal nucleations.

Etruscan Places (Esprios Classics)

Author: D H Lawrence
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781034075998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays, or Etruscan Places, is a collection of travel writings by D. H. Lawrence, first published posthumously in 1932. In this book Lawrence contrasted the life affirming world of the Etruscans with the shabbiness of Benito Mussolini's Italy during the late 1920s. In preparing these essays, Lawrence travelled through the countryside of Tuscany with his friend Earl Brewster during the spring of 1927.