Word: etruscans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drowned man was Professor Alfredo Trombetti, 63. Once a barber's apprentice, he studied languages, won a scholarship at the University of Bologna, later a Government money grant to concentrate on the Etruscan mystery. He announced last April that soon he would reveal startling findings, but not before they were complete. Scholars waited anxiously to hear whether he had left any notes on his life work, and whether the notes, if any, were decipherable...
...Etruscan Wall Paintings", Professor Chase, Fogg Lecture room...
...Etruscan Wall Paintings", Professor Chase, Fogg Lecture room...
Simple, yet highly colorful and very effective settings form a piquant surrounding for the songs and pantomimes offered. The Russian scenes are mixed with such bits as "An Eighteenth Century Fan", "Fragment of an Etruscan Vase" or a rollicking Dutch travesty...
Nineteen centuries of foundered orgy looked up at the hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* looked down from the vantage of his flying height through Nemi's waters and could see what none but groping divers theretofore had seen?the sunken Golden Barge whereon epileptic Emperor Caligula?, great-grandson of Augustus, and his minions held their carouses...