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Etruscan Places - Travels Through Forgotten Italy (Paperback)
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Etruscan Places - Travels Through Forgotten Italy (Paperback)
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The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the
5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most
fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental
people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their
'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him
they represented the antithesis of everything he despised in the
modern world, perhaps because their spontaneity and naturalness
struck a chord with his own quest for personal and artistic freedom
- so often censured or repressed. Lawrence approaches the enigmatic
Etruscans as a poet, passionately and searchingly, and so the
reader is swept up in his luminous descriptions of a utopian world
where dancing and feasting, art and music were everything. The
exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark
contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini's Italy -
at a time when Europe was beginning its inexorable drift towards
tragedy. The last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is an
ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative
descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation.
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