Etruria

Rome, during these days, was contending on a position of near equality with the neighboring cities of Latium and Etruria.

While traveling to and from this province he was forcibly impressed by the industrial and economic conditions in Etruria.

It was Etruria that produced not only Dante, but also a galaxy of great men such as no other part of Europe has presented.

Fanny wants to know “what you are gone for,” and endeavors to pronounce Etruria.

There lack'd not men of prowess, nor men of lordly race; For all Etruria's noblest were round the fatal place.