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{cover} {ii ‑‑ title page} Etruscan Bologna A Study. By Richard F. Burton, Author Of Pilgrimage To El Medinah And Mecca, City Of The Saints And Rocky Mountains To
California, And
Others. London: Smith, Elder, And Company, 15 Waterloo
Place. 1876. [All Rights Reserved.] {iii} {iv} {v}
{vi} {i} ETRUSCAN BOLOGNA {foldout plate facing title page}
[Jeff Hill's footnote: it is unclear why
Mr. Burton has included this foldout plate in the front of his book, to which
he makes no especial reference in his text. The table seems to be incomplete
and seems to contain more than one error, for example: 1. The table is not of much use
because the items are unlabeled. 2. It is unclear why one flint
implement seems to be illustrated in box 3, since the title is in the plural, Silex Implements From Latium. 3. It is unclear precisely what parts
of Italy are being illustrated in the geological cross sections of boxes 1, 2,
and 3. 4. The scale of the items in every box
is various and unlabeled. This fact makes it difficult to distinguish smaller
arrow heads from larger spearheads, for instance. 5. The
items in the table are so small that they are hard to study. 6. The rationale behind the layout is difficult
to fathom. It is also unclear why dots are used to fill valuable space -- were
they so used by Cavaliere M. E. di Rossi in the original table, or were they
inserted by Mr. Richard Burton to indicate items which he was skipping over? 7. It is unclear why one box appears
to have two, rather similar, headings: 6. Traces Of The Bronze Age Amongst The Romans, and 7. Arms Of The Bronze Age. A series of items seems to
be missing under one or the other of these headings. 8. Box 9 unexpectedly precedes box 8,
unless the numbers 8 and 9 are interchanged. 9. It is unclear why a table
containing many specified Roman antiquities is included in a book describing
Etruscan antiquities. Mr. Burton may have incompletely
Englished a small part of a table possibly plagiarised by him from one of the
works by Cavaliere M. E. di Rossi which he mentions in the text. However, this
is probably not the synoptic
table mentioned
by Mr. Burton on page 149 below as having been prepared by Senator Ponzi and
delivered to the Congress of Bologna. Mr. James Wellard, on page 75 of his In Search Of The Etruscans, observes that this book was written by a man in a hurry! It is also possible that
Mr. Richard Burton's publisher inserted this somewhat superfluous table,
without permission, because of its apparently similar subject matter to Mr.
Burton's text.] |
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Etruscan Bologna, A Study Part I. The Works Of Man.
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