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George Dennis (1848). The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. John Murray. pp. 146–. Volterra. He may know it by the sign of three naked females, the most graceless things about the house. The landlord, SigTM. Ottavio ... From the "Unione," a few steps will lead to the Porta all' Arco.3 I envy the stranger his first impressions on ...

James Bentley (5 July 1988). A guide to Tuscany. Penguin. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-14-046683-6. Macaulay's poem 'Horatius' has as its hero a Roman, not the ranks of Lars Porsena invading the city of Rome. Even so Macaulay perfectly catches in his verse ... It took him two years to starve out Volterra. Then Sulla made himself dictator and ...

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Lorenzo Aulo Cecina; Flaminio Dal Borgo (1758). Notizie istoriche della città di Volterra, alle quali si aggiunge la serie de' podestà, e capitani del popolo di essa (in Italian). Per G. P. Giovannelli. pp. 65–. Luglio furono lette alla presenza degli Anziani, e del Consiglio Generale di Volterra le lettere del Conte Guido da Monfort Vicario del Rè, nelle quali veniva comandato, che il Comune di Volterra pagasse ciò, che doveva alla Regia Camera per ...

D. H. Lawrence (16 April 2013). Etruscan Places. Read Books Limited. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-1-4474-8782-1.

D. H. Lawrence; Simonetta de Filippis (11 July 2002). Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays. Cambridge University Press. pp. 315–. ISBN 978-0-521-00701-6.

David Bershad; Carolina Mangone; Irving Hexham (2001). The Christian Travelers Guide to Italy. Harper Collins. pp. 220–. ISBN 978-0-310-22573-7. The famed local industry, working alabaster, has also proved an enduring industry in Volterra. Begun in the 8th century B.C., alabaster carving continues today as the traditional Volterran trade. The prehistoric Villanovan settlement (9th century ...

DK (1 May 2014). Eyewitness Travel Family Guide Italy. Dorling Kindersley Limited. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-1-4093-5398-0. Truly ancient clifftop city Volterra is perhaps the most dramatic and unusual city in the region. Founded by the Etruscans in the 8th century BC, it is perched on a high plateau of volcanic rock and surrounded by medieval walls, some ...

Insight Guides (2 November 2015). Insight Guides: Tuscany. APA. pp. 524–. ISBN 978-1-78005-543-5. These include Etruscan (8th–2nd century BC) sites at Volterra, Fiesole, Arezzo, Chiusi, Vetulonia and on the island of Elba. There is an archaeological museum in Florence, and other museums in Volterra, Chiusi, Cortona, Asciano, Grosseto ...

Jean MacIntosh Turfa (13 November 2014). The Etruscan World. Routledge. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-1-134-05523-4.

Alan Norman Bold (1976). Cambridge Book of English Verse, 1939-1975. CUP Archive. pp. 220–. ISBN 978-0-521-09840-3.

Anton Filippo Giachi (1786). Saggio di ricerche sopra lo stato antico e moderno di Volterra dalla sua prima origine fino ai nostri tempi per facilitare ai giovani lo studio della storia patria opera del sacerdote Anton-Filippo Giachi rettore del regio spedale di detta città . (in Italian). nella stamperia di Pietro Allegrini alla Croce Rossa. pp. 8–. Ma il colpo fatale dei Romani, e di Volterra fu nell' anno di Roma 474 ... tam bonestum municipium.

Christopher Kleinhenz (2 August 2004). Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 1038–. ISBN 978-1-135-94880-1. The lordship of a distant (and often preoccupied) bishop provided many opportunities for civic selfdetermination. On his hill, the bishop of Volterra built a castello as a residence when he was in the area. This, with its church of Santo Stefano, ...

Peter Hinze (2000). Florence — Fiesole, Prato, Pistoia, San Gimignano, Volterra, Siena: An Up-to-date Travel Guide; [with Fold-out Map]. Hunter Publishing, Inc. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-3-88618-773-7.

Lonely Planet (24 July 2014). Italie 6 - Florence et la Toscane (in French). Place Des Editeurs. pp. 226–. ISBN 978-2-8161-4727-8. Volterragusto GASTRONOMIE (www.volterragusto.com). Manifestations à la mi-mars, à la fin octobre et début novembre, présentant des produits locaux, notammentdufromage, destruffes blanches, de l'huile d'olive et du chocolat.

Madelena Gonzalez; Patrice Brasseur (16 April 2010). Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre: Constructing Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 138–. ISBN 978-1-4438-2184-1. ... depuis 1996, le théâtre San Pietro à Volterra, a obtenu, à partir de 1997, la direction artistique et technique du festival Volterrateatro, au sein duquel le projet « Iteatri dell'impossibile » a été proposé.5 Cette compagnie apporte régulièrement ...

Frank Sear (20 July 2006). Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study. OUP Oxford. pp. 170–. ISBN 978-0-19-814469-4. J. B. Ward Perkins, BSR 29 (1961), 64, 68. VOLATERRAE (Volterra, PI) (Plan 79, Pis. 35-6) Location: within Roman walls, built against steep slope immediately north of medieval walls. Cavea: D 63 m, facing north-west; ima cavea: 10 rows (o.) ..

Rick Steves (28 August 2007). Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2008. Avalon Travel. pp. 354–. ISBN 9781566918541. Over time, the theater was forgotten — covered in the garbage of Volterra. Luckily, it was rediscovered in the 1950s. The stage wall was standard Roman design — with three levels from which actors would appear: one for humans, one for ...

University of California, Berkeley. Associated Students; Fodor's (1 December 1995). Italy '96: on the loose, on the cheap, off the beaten path. Fodor's Travel Publications. ISBN 978-0-679-02985-4.

Mauro Staccioli: Sites of Experience. Damiani. 2009. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-88-6208-117-7. Piazza dei Priori ... Volterra's main piazza was the center around which Staccioli's 1972 exhibition was organized. A symbol of central power, the piazza is ...

Baedekers Autoführer-Verlag (1962). Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia. K. Baedeker. pp. 489–. ...The centre of Volterra is the *Piazza dei Priori, which is lined with medieval palazzi. On the W side, the stately Palazzo dei Priori, ...

Mariagiulia Burresi; Alessandro Furiesi; Gabriella Belli (2007). Il Palazzo dei Priori di Volterra: storia e restauro (in Italian). Nuova Immagine. ISBN 978-88-7145-263-0.

Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications (2003). Fodor's Florence, Tuscany, and Umbria. Fodor's. pp. 195–. ISBN 978-1-4000-1108-7. As you make the dramatic climb up to Volterra through bleak, rugged terrain, you'll see that not all ... Piazza dei Priori, lined with an impressive collection of medieval buildings, including the imposing Palazzo dei Priori ...

Encyclopedia Americana: Venice to Wilmot. Scholastic Library Pub. 2006. pp. 230–. ISBN 978-0-7172-0139-6. ... In Piazza dei Priori, one of Italy's finest medieval squares, stand the 13th century Palazzo dei Priori or town hall, housing ...

Pinacoteca di Volterra (1989). La Pinacoteca di Volterra. Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.

Mariagiulia Burresi; Antonino Caleca (2006). Volterra d'oro e di pietra (in Italian). Pacini. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-88-7781-775-4. Qui, nel rispetto della sua vocazione a documentare la consistenza dell'arte a Volterra, è stato creato il Museo di palazzo Minucci-Solaini, accostando al primitivo nucleo della Pinacoteca civica di Corrado Ricci, dipinti, sculture e arredi anch ...

Lorenzo Carletti; Cristiano Giometti (2001). Scultura lignea pisana: percorsi nel territorio tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. F. Motta. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-88-7179-302-3. Dal 1982 la Pinacoteca di Volterra è ospitata nelle sale del rinascimentale Palazzo Minucci-Solaini, ma la ... annessa al Duomo; quindi, su proposta di Corrado Ricci, nel 1905 la collezione fu spostata nel Palazzo dei Priori e arricchita. ... From 1982 onwards, the Pinacoteca in Volterra has been located in the rooms of the Renaissance Palazzo Minucci- Solaini, but the history of the ...

Toscana: (esclusa Firenze) (in Italian). Touring Editore. 1997. pp. 464–. ISBN 978-88-365-0948-5. A destra, nel breve sdrucciolo di Piazza, è la torre Martinoli, fianco del palazzo Incontri (pag. 459). VIA DANIELE RICCIARELLI (il pittore del '500 più noto come Daniele da Volterra). ... il vicino volto si sbuca nella piazzetta caratterizzata dalla casa-torre Minucci (secolo xm), inglobata nel palazzo Solaini (v. sotto). ... Nucleo fondamentale del complesso museale è la raccolta della Galleria pittorica comunale (Pinacoteca), fondata nel 1905 nel palazzo dei Priori e comprendente un 1 3 IL ...

Michelin Travel Publications (2000). Tuscany. Michelin Travel Publications. pp. 313–. ISBN 978-2-06-000010-7. Volterra crags (baize) Pinacoteca 0 - Via dei Sarti 1; in the Palazzo Minucci-Solaini. The art gallery has some interesting works of religious art by Tuscan masters of the 14C-17C ...

Anna Benvenuti Papi (1999). Volterra e la Val di Cecina (in Italian). Mondadori. ISBN 978-88-04-46773-1. Dal 1982 la Galleria Pittorica, o Pinacoteca, è ospitata nelle sale del palazzo Minucci-Solaini ... Tra le opere più significative segnaliamo, oltre la celebre e grandiosa tavola della Deposizione del Rosso Fiorentino, polittici ...

Harvard Student's; Let's Go, Inc. (1999). Let's Go: the Budget Guide to Italy. St. Martin's Press. pp. 299–. ISBN 9780312194888. Volterra's Fortezza Medicea, an elegant remnant from the Florentine domination, is the town's most prominent structure. ... On the other side of P. dei Priori, on V. dei Sard, the Pinacoteca Comunale occupies the Palazzo Minucci-Solaini (tel. ... In his Deposition (1520), the most significant piece of the collection, Rosso Fiorentino appears to abandon High Renaissance ...

Denbigh Sale; Marie Kidd; Julian Pitt (1 December 2014). Our Secret Tuscany: In the Foothills of Monte Pisano. Australian eBook Publisher. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-1-925271-65-2. Although Volterra isn't strictly in the region of the Monte Pisano, we highly recommend a visit to this atmospheric hilltown which ... From its commanding hilltop position, the enormous Medici Fortress (Fortezza Medicea) looks out over Volterra.

Dana Facaros; Michael Pauls (2004). Italy. New Holland Publishers. pp. 685–. ISBN 978-1-86011-113-6. ... in the 'archaeological park' near the Fortezza Medicea, a big castle built on what was the Etruscan acropolis in the 1470s. ... Volterra 's most conspicuous ancient relic, however, is the Etruscan arch in the south wall, over Via Porta all'Arco.

Rachael Hamilton; Allison Macleod; Jenny Munro (18 July 2014). Spaces of (Dis)location. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 164–. ISBN 978-1-4438-6451-0. Volterra's identity was not only characterized by its tradition of alabaster craft and by the psychiatric hospital, but also by the high security penitentiary located in the Fortezza Medicea. The Duke of Florence, Lorenzo il Magnifico, constructed the ...

Gabriele Cateni (2004). Volterra: The Guarnacci Etruscan Museum. Pacini. ISBN 978-88-7781-622-1.

Brief guide to the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum of Volterra. Edizioni I.F.I. 1970.

Anna Marguerite McCann; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1978). Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 58–. Etruscan ... Cf. particularly the stern of a galley represented on an Etruscan funerary urn in the Guarnacci Museum in Volterra, Pairault, op. cit, pl. 1142.' Also see the stern of a galley...

The J. Paul Getty Museum (1 January 1981). The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 9, 1981. Getty Publications. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-0-89236-032-1. ...in keeping with the gradual proliferation of large-sca1e sculpture throughout Etruria from the end of the fourth and beginning of ... Evidence for North Etruscan workmanship is offered by the reliefs on cinerary urns of Volterra, Chiusi, and Perugia, and the sculptural ... Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, inv. no.

Eric Russell Chamberlin; Ken Paterson; Thomas Cook Ltd (1994). Passport's Illustrated travel guide to Florence & Tuscany. Passport Books. ISBN 978-0-8442-9055-3. MUSEO ETRUSCO GUARNACCI This is one of the most important museums of Etruscan art in Italy. ... as the 'Shadow of the Night', discovered in 1879 and used as a firepoker until experts realised this was a masterpiece of Etruscan art.

Rick Steves (29 December 2015). Rick Steves Snapshot Hill Towns of Central Italy: Including Siena & Assisi. Avalon Travel Publishing. pp. 94–. ISBN 978-1-63121-204-8. The museum's other top piece is the Urn of the Spouses (Urna degli Sposi, first century B.C.). It's unique for various reasons, including its material (it's in terracotta—a relatively rare material for these funerary urns) and its depiction of two ...

Florence and Tuscany. A complete guide with itineraries. ATS Italia Editrice. 2011. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-88-6524-400-5. Among the works housed here, particularly remarkable are: the vase with black figures, the cinerary urn with the deceased (Atteone), the mirror with dioscuri and the Urn of the spouses. Volterra Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Evening Shadow ...

Kunst und Geschichte der Toskana: ein Landstrich voller Wohlgeschmack und Farbenfreude eine Region, in der die gastronomische Überlieferung auf magische Weise mit einer jahrtausendealten Kultur verbunden ist (in German). Casa Editrice Bonechi. 1970. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-88-476-1794-0. SCHATTEN DES ABENDS Museo Etrusco Guarnacci Die Figur stammt aus der Florentiner Sammlung der Familie Buonarroti und wurde von ... Unten der Deckel einer Aschenurne, der sogenannten Urna degli Sposi (des Ehepaares

Touring Club of Italy (2005). Authentic Tuscany. Touring Editore. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-88-365-3297-1. The Museo Etrusco Guarnacci O has forty rooms housing an enormous collection of antiquities from prehistoric to ... alabaster and terracotta (4th-1st century BC) from local excavations, including the famous Urna degli Sposi (Urn of the Married ...

Henry James (1 March 1995). Italian Hours. Penguin Publishing Group. pp. 339–. ISBN 978-1-101-17386-2. I may not invite the reader to penetrate with me by so much as a step the boundless backward reach of history to which the more massive of the Etruscan gates of Volterra, the Porta all'Arco, forms the solidest of thresholds; since I perforce take ...

Mario Giovannelli (1613). Cronistoria dell'antichità, e nobiltà di Volterra, cominciando dal principio della sua edificazione infin'al giorno d'hoggi. ... Raccolta da diuersi scrittori per ... fra Mario Giouannelli . appresso Giouanni Fontani. pp. 4–.

Luisa Banti (1973). Etruscan Cities and Their Culture. University of California Press. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-0-520-01910-2. These natural communication routes all met just below the city, where the village of Saline di Volterra stands today. Then as now, Volterra ... The two city gates — Porta Diana and Porta all'Arco — are Etruscan only in their lower part. The three ...

Isabella Lapi Ballerini; Mario Scalini (2003). The Medici Villas: Complete Guide. Giunti Editore. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-88-09-02995-8.

Emma Jones (1 April 2004). Tuscany and Umbria. Hunter Publishing, Inc. pp. 308–. ISBN 978-1-58843-399-2. The. wide fertile valley of the Valdera (the Era Valley) spreads along the Era River ... Saline di Volterra is on the Pisa-Cecina-Volterra Saline train line (% 848-888088, www.trenitalia.it); a shuttle bus will take ...

Gillian Price (27 July 2012). Walking in Tuscany: 50 Walks throughout Tuscany. Cicerone Press Limited. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-1-84965-672-6. By public transport from Volterra take the local bus for the short ride down to Saline. Otherwise from Cecina on the main LivornoRome rail line, several trains a day (or the odd substitute bus) still run as far as Saline. 7: Saline di Volterra, ...

David Gilmour (3 March 2011). The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-14-192989-7. ... who were based in Etruria, where they built hilltop towns such as Volterra, and from where they spread north to the Po ... historian Livy, Thomas Babington Macaulay described the Roman hero Horatius Cocles holding a bridge over 'Father ...

F. C. Green (16 June 2011). Stendhal. Cambridge University Press. pp. 142–. ISBN 978-1-107-60072-0. In May of 1819, Métilde went to Volterra where her two sons were at school, whilst Stendhal reproached himself bitterly for not having had the courage to demand a decisive explanation of her feelings. But as he wrote rather pathetically: " Mais ...

David Wakefield (1984). Stendhal: The Promise of Happiness : "la Beauté N'est Que la Promesse Du Bonheur" (De L'Amour). Newstead Press. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-0-85390-027-6. At the time she met Stendhal early in 1818 she was living on the piazza Belgiojoso. From the ... Then, in the Spring of 1819, Metilde announced that she was going to visit her sons at school in Volterra, and she forbade Stendhal to follow her.

Sue Parrill (31 August 2009). Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era. McFarland. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5803-5. Ramage (1965) #1 Pope's first novel introduces the hero, Lord Nicholas Ramage, lieutenant in the Royal Navy, in the year ... The friends of his family include the Marchesa di Volterra, whom Ramage learns is one of the six noble refugees that ...

Tom Grundner (1 October 2007). The Ramage Companion. Fireship Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-934757-05-5. Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage wakes up a dazed and confused young man. ... Landing himself and his men, he rescues the stranded refugees—including the beautiful Marchesa di Volterra—literally from under the hoofs of Napoleon's ...

Panorama (in Italian). Vol. 1826–1829. Mondadori. April 2001. pp. 223–. CHIMAIRA di Valerio Massimo Manfredi Mondadori, 246 pagine, 30 mila lire. ... con Nino Castelnuovo che perdeva la testa per una bella etrusca reincarnatasi nella Volterra dei giorni nostri.

Anjali Pandey (25 January 2016). Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-1-137-34036-8. ... they saw, lined on the shelves, hundreds of urns in which the ancient people of Volterra had stored the ashes of their dead. ... The following interaction excerpted from "Unaccustomed Earth" illustrates how Lahiri manages to 'explain' Bengali ...

Henry Bacon (28 March 1998). Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay. Cambridge University Press. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-0-521-59960-3. Another starting point was d'Amico's and Visconti's idea of locating the story in the Tuscan city of Volterra. ... Sandra (Cardinale) suspects her mother (Marie Bell) and the mother's lover Gilardini (Renzo Ricci) of betraying her Jewish father to ...

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Vander Poppen, Robert E. (2008). Rural Change and Continuity in Etruria: A Study of Village Communities from the 7th Century B.C. to the 1st Century A.D. (Thesis). pp. 340–. doi:10.17615/sc1p-nv51. Volterra: A Roman City with an Etruscan Hinterland Rome first reached a settlement with Volterra at the end of the 3rd century B.C. when the city was declared an allied municipium. Volterra only entered fully into the control of Rome with ...

Simioli, Adele (June 2013). "L'ipotesi di ospedale psichiatrico di Daniele Calabi: progetti e realizzazioni". Territorio (65): 85–88. doi:10.3280/tr2013-065013. ISSN 1825-8689.

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