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Dennis, George
The cities and cemeteries of Etruria: in two volumes (Band 1) — London, 1848

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THE SARCOPHAGUS OF THE NIOBIDES.

CHAPTER XXIII.

TOSCANELLA.—mS&4 NIA.

Vedenio Toscanela tanto anticha
Quanta aleun altra de questo paese.

Faccio degli Uberti.

About nine or ten miles to the east of Canino lies
Toscanella, an Etruscan site of considerable interest. It
may be reached in a carriage, either from Viterbo,
Corneto, or Canino. This part of the great plain is
diversified by oak-woods, which afford a pleasing contrast
to the naked sweeps nearer the sea and the Ciminian
Mount. Toscanella, with its many lofty towers, is the
most conspicuous object in the thinly-peopled plain, and
 
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