Volume 3, Number 6 · November 5, 1964
Etruscan Things
By M.I. Finley
Etruscan Culture, Land and People
by Axel Boethius. and others. with the collaboration of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, translated by N.G. Sahlin
Columbia University, 478 pp., $42.50
Those Mysterious Etruscans
by Agnes Carr Vaughan
Doubleday, 222 pp., $5.95
The Etruscans
by Zacharie Mayani, translated by Patrick Evans
Simon and Schuster, 474 pp., $8.50
The Etruscans
by Emeline Richardson
University of Chicago, 285 pp., $7.95
The Italians have a word, etruscheria, with the same slightly mocking overtone as in chinoiserie, and we are apparently in the midst of another floodtide. When even a first-rate professional of many year's experience, Axel Boethius, can close his lively account of 'The Etruscan Centuries of Italy' in the Swedish volume with these words,
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