The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . drink for the fair of Paris and London— II leggiadretto, II si divino Moscadelletto Di Montalcino. Un tal vino Lo destinoPer le dame di Parigi; E per quelle, Che si belleKallegrar fanno il Tamigi. Castelnuovo dell Abate, seven miles further south, is 5 Lanzi, II. p. 373. Pienza is conjee- Apuni (Aponius), Tile or Teti tured by Cramer (I. p. 221) to be the (Titus), Cae (Caius), Ancarni (An- Manliana of Ptolemy and the Itineraries. charms), Laucam (Lncanns), and others Bull. I nst. 1840, pp. 97—104. The whose names are not fully legible,families mentioned i
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria . drink for the fair of Paris and London— II leggiadretto, II si divino Moscadelletto Di Montalcino. Un tal vino Lo destinoPer le dame di Parigi; E per quelle, Che si belleKallegrar fanno il Tamigi. Castelnuovo dell Abate, seven miles further south, is 5 Lanzi, II. p. 373. Pienza is conjee- Apuni (Aponius), Tile or Teti tured by Cramer (I. p. 221) to be the (Titus), Cae (Caius), Ancarni (An- Manliana of Ptolemy and the Itineraries. charms), Laucam (Lncanns), and others Bull. I nst. 1840, pp. 97—104. The whose names are not fully legible,families mentioned in the epitaphs are the chap, xlii.] PIENZA—MONTALCINO. 135 another site which has yielded Etruscan tombs in the In the distriet of Siena have been found other sepulchres inthe olden time; one of the family of Lecne (Licinius), and another of that of Veti (Vettius). But the precise localitiesof these tombs are not 7 Lan/.i, Saggio II. p. 368. One was of a Lanzi, II. pp. 360, 361. the family of the ETRUSCAN WALLS OF VOLTERRA, BELOW SANTA CHIA11A. CHAPTER XLIIL , or VOLATERRJE. The City. —appresso trovammo Yultera,Sopra un gran monte, clie forte e auticha,Quanto en Thoscana sia alcuna terra.—Faccio delgi Ubeuti. We came een to the citys wallAnd the great gate.—Shelley. Volterra lies in the mountainous region between the coastrailway, and that which connects Florence with Siena, a regionrich in mineral and agricultural wealth rather than in classicalantiquities, and consequently little visited by tourists, as it is nottraversed by any direct line of railroad. Volterra, however, hasa little railway of its own, which branches from the coast lineat Cecina, and runs up the valley of that name as far as LeSaline, at the foot of the hill on which the city stands, andabout five miles from the Volterra may also be reached 1 In bad weather this line is apt to getout of order, and no intelligence of itsbeing closed is to
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