Etruscan : native of ancient Etruria, now forming Tuscany & part of Umbria.
... itself free of the great tyrants and the petty. It was on the heroism and kingliness of the Italian soul, the resurrection in Florence and Rome and Naples of the ancient Page 479 Roman, Etruscan and Samnite that Cavour should have relied, not on the false-hearted huckster of states and principalities, Louis Napoleon. MAZZINI Italy is one, Italy is free, but in the body, not in the soul ...
... court ). Sebottendorff, like List, was fascinated by the runes. Knowledgeable people write that the phonetic runic alphabet dates from the first centuries CE, and that it may be derived from the Etruscan script. Yet numerous runic inscriptions from prehistoric times have been found, especially in Scandinavia. “Prehistorians generally accept that the runes had possessed a symbolism over and above their ...
... In France also or in Italy the] growth and the unification were achieved through violent ;1 revolutions, eruptions and irruptions. In the former, a Gaelic; and Iberian base and in the latter an Etruscan were all but; swept off by the Roman rule which again saw its end at the hand of the Barbarians. The history of Greece offers a typical picture of the destiny of these peoples. Her life-line is sundered ...
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