Dennis, George: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria: in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1848)

chap, sxxvi.] ETRUSCAN URNS IN THE CAMPO SANTO. 91

buskined, but without drapery, in a sitting posture, and
with a spear in her hand—extremely like one of the evil
spirits painted on the walls of the Grotta del Cardinale at
Corneto,5 who sits as guardian over

------------" the gates of grislie Hell,

And horrid house of sad Proserpina."

As in duty bound, I have noticed these Etruscan relics ;
yet few who visit this sacred and silent corner of Pisa,
where the grandeur and glory of the city are concentrated,
are likely to give them much attention. Few will turn
from the antique pomp, the mosque-like magnificence of
the Cathedral—from the fair white marvel of the Leaning
Tower—from the cunningly-wrought pulpit and font of
the Baptistery—or even from the frescoed visions, the
grotesque solemnities of the Campo Santo, to examine
these uncouth memorials of the early possessors of the
land.

6 See Vol. I. p. 321, where the resemblance this figure bears to the Fury
Tisiphone is pointed out.