Modern Etruscans

Chiara Zampieri is a junior researcher in Comparative Literature at KU Leuven and member of the MDRN Research Lab.
Martina Piperno is assistant professor of Italian Studies at Università di Roma La Sapienza and member of the MDRN Research Lab. Bart Van den Bossche is full professor of Italian Studies at KU Leuven and founding member of the MDRN Research Lab.

9 Introduction
Chiara Zampieri, Martina Piperno and Bart Van den Bossche
23 Etruscans, Victorians, and After: The Modern Sense of Beauty
Francesca Orestano
43 The `Walking Apollö: From Archaeological Dissemination to Literary Knowledge
Chiara Zampieri
63 Cooking by the Book: Travel Writing and Etruscan Food Culture in the Interwar Period
Bart Van den Bossche
81 Etruscans in Unexpected Places: Space, Temporality and Visual Agency
Lisa C. Pieraccini
97 The Demonisation of the Etruscans: From Alfred Grünwedel to German Schoolbooks
Martin Miller
115 Mr Lawrence and Lady Larthia: D. H. Lawrence as an Apprentice Etruscologist
Marie-Laurence Haack
127 Etruscan Studies and the Infernal Landscape in Vincenzo Cardarelli¿s prose d¿arte
Gennaro Ambrosino
147 The Problem of Distance: Giorgio Bassani, The Etruscans and the Limits of Compassion
Martina Piperno
163 A Compromised Antiquity: The Post-war Italian Rejection of the Etruscan Past
Andrea Avalli
181 About the Authors
185 Index