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Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c. established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.
Built from the eighth to the 12th centuries, San Pietro stands at the ba ck of a grassy courtyard with Etruscan sarcophagi, beside two crumbling medieval towers.
Originally a 16th-century cavalry barracks, the Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale) is in no way a dry bundle of old bones and stones, but sheer pleasure for anyone even remotely interested in southern Italy’s Greek, Etruscan, and Roman past.
Perhaps one day we shall find an Etruscan library, buried deep in the Italian countryside; but for the present, we have to make do with what we have, which is precious little.
At a time when early Roman and other Latin tribes were still primitive, Etruscan society — itself savage in many respects — was also aristocratic and highly sophisticated.
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