Road Trip: Etruscan Tuscany

Etruscan Musings: "la cucina etrusca"

Lars Porsena of Clusium/ by the Nine Gods he swore

That the great house of Tarquin/ should suffer wrong no more.

By the Nine Gods he swore it,/ and named a trysting day,

And bade his messengers ride forth,

East and west and south and north

To summon his array.

For reasons too complicated and too boring to divulge, I recently spent a week playing tourist in so…