Volume 53, Number 9 · May 25, 2006
Notes from Underground
By Hugh Eakin
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
by Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini
Public Affairs, 379 pp., $26.95
'Big money is now being paid for Etruscan vases,' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote from Naples in 1787, 'and many of them are certainly beautiful and excellent. There is no traveler who doesn't want to own some.'
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