Volterra

Lake Regillus was near Rome.

In Etruria were Florentia, Fusulae, Faeese, Arentium, Volaterrae, Clusium, Tarquinii, also Lake Trasimenus.

In Campania were Capua, Neapolis, Naples, Cumae, Baiae, a watering place, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Cadiiium, Salernum, Cocilisum, and Nola.

The famous volcano Vesuvius was here, and also Lake Avernus.

They probably came from the north and at first settled in the plain of the Po, but being afterwards dislodged by the invading Gauls, they moved farther south into Truria.

Here they formed a confederation of twelve cities between the Arno and the Tiber.

Of these cities the most noted were the Volsenii, the head of the confederacy, Veii, Volaterrae, Carri, and Clusium.

This people also formed scattering settlements in other parts of Italy, but gained no firm foothold.

Tuscany is massive.

You can go thousands of years in history with the Etruscans and Volterra.

Yeah,

it's amazing.

Ugh, the, the dissonance.

Also, just logistically, how do they get away with doing that? Because in the book it's like, okay, all these, like, American tourists or whatever are coming to Volterra every year or whatever.

So all these people disappearing and no one's doing a news story? Like, are the vampires that infiltrated the media?

That's true.

In this tomb was a Madonna, very well executed, with other figures, and in it was afterwards laid to rest the body of the Cardinal of Strigonia.

To Volterra Andrea sent two angels of marble in the round, and for Marco del Nero, a Florentine, he made a life-size crucifix of wood, which is now in the church of Santa Felicità at Florence.

He made a smaller one for the Company of the Assumption in Fiesole.

Andrea also delighted in architecture, and he was the master of Mangone, the stone-cutter and architect, who afterwards erected many palaces and other buildings in Rome in a passing good manner.

Silvio executed a tomb for the Minervetti in their chapel in the Tramezzo of the church of Santa Maria Novella as well as any man could, since, in addition to the beautiful shape of the sarcophagus, there are carved upon it various shields, helmet crests, and other fanciful things, and all with as much design as could be desired in such a work.

Being at Pisa in the year 1528, Silvio made there an angel that was wanting over a column on the high altar of the Duomo to face the one by Tribolo, and he made it so like the other that it could not be more like even if it were by the same hand.

In the church of Montenero near Livorno he made a little panel of marble with two figures for the Frati Ingesuati, and at Volterra he made a tomb for Messer Raffaello da Volterra, a man of great learning, wherein he portrayed him from nature on a sarcophagus of marble, with some ornaments and figures.

Afterwards, when the siege of Florence was going on, Niccolo Caponi, a most honourable citizen, died at Castel Nuovo della Garfagnana on his return from Genoa, where he had been as ambassador from his republic to the Emperor, and Silvio was sent in great haste to make a cast of his head, to the end that he might afterwards make one in marble, having already executed a very beautiful one in wax.

They had like these wooden things.

like mazes that you could drop the ball in and like do all of that stuff there was just tons of stuff for kids to do and that was really even before we went to Volterra that was the first place we went and experienced that

and then we loved it so much we went to Volterra the next weekend which I think we had planned on going anyway

yeah

So in the Cittadella Pieve, there's an alley, which I didn't know about until I just kind of double researched it, called Vicolo Bacidone.

And then we sit down and eat.

And then the rest of the afternoon is free because as I was mentioning, we are near Siena and Volterra and San Gimignano.

So I like to, you know, use half of the day for the class and then leave half of the day for people to explore the surroundings.

We have also the Thursday classes without the market because our market day is just on Wednesday in my town.

She had to get there in a way that did not expose her skin to the sunlight.

Had to download their parking app so that she could pay for two hours of parking in Volterra.

She had to enter her card

information.