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GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS
  Barker, Graeme & Rasmussen, Thomas. 1998. The Etruscans. Blackwell Publishers. 

  Etruscans: Italy's Lovers of Life. 1995. Lost Civilizations series. Time-Life 
  Publications. 
  Grant, Michael. 1980. The Etruscans. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 
  Macnamara, Ellen. 1991. The Etruscans. Harvard University Press. 
  Pallottino, Massimo. 1991. A History of Earliest Italy. Ann Arbor: University 
  of Michigan Press. Storia della Prima Italia. 1984. Trans. Ryle, Martin and 
  Soper, Kate. A standard work by the late dean of Etruscan scholars. 
LANGUAGE
  Bonfante, Giuliano and Larissa Bonfante. 1983. The Etruscan Language: An 
  Introduction. New York and London: New York University Press. Comprehensive, 
  good bibliography, inscriptions, mirrors, short lexicon, grammar, etc. 
  Bonfante, Larissa, ed. 1990. Etruscan. Reading the Past Series. Univ. of CA 
  Press. 
  Campbell, G.L., ed. 1991. "Etruscan." Compendium of the World's Languages, 
  Vol. 1. Routledge. Volume is plagued with errors, but sketch of Etruscan is 
  still interesting and provocative in spite of this. Based on Pfiffig, Ambros 
  J. 
CULTURE
  Banti, Luisa. 1973. The Etruscan Cities and Their Culture. [trans. Erika 
  Bizzarri]. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of CA Press. 
  Bonfante, Larissa. 1975. Etruscan Dress. John Hopkins University Press. 
  Bonfante, Larissa, ed. 1986. Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of 
  Etruscan Studies. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 
  Cristofani, Mauro. 1979. The Etruscans: A New Investigation. [trans. Brian 
  Phillips] London: Orbis Publishing Ltd. 
  Grant, Michael. 1980. The Etruscans. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 
HISTORICAL NOVELS
  Haynes, Sybille. 1987. The Augur's Daughter: A Story of Etruscan Life. Rubicon 
  Press, U.K. 
  Waltari, Mika. 1956. The Etruscan. trans. Lily Leino. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 
DATED BUT STILL WORTHWHILE &COMMON IN LIBRARIES
  Hamblin, Dora Jane. 1975. The Etruscans. (The Emergence of Man Series). New 
  York: Time-Life Books. 
  Heurgon, Jacques. 1964. Daily Life of the Etruscans. La Vie Quotidienne chez 
  les Etrusques. trans. James Kirkup. 1961. New York: Macmillan Co. 
  Keller, Werner. 1974. The Etruscans. A.A. Knopf. Translation from German of 
  popular account by non-estruscologist. 
  Scullard, H. H. 1967. The Etruscan Cities and Rome. Thames and Hudson/ London 
  and Southampton: The Camelot Press. Recently reissued. 
  Strong, Donald. 1968. The Early Etruscans. (Life in Ancient Lands series. 
  Edward Bacon, ed.) G.P. Putnam. Dated popular account, which does not detract 
  from wealth of detail about geography and climate, history, etc. 
  Von Cles-Reden, Sybille. 1955. The Buried People. Das Versunkene Folk. trans. 
  C.M. Wodehouse. London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 
  von Vacano, Otto-Wilhelm. 1960. The Etruscans in the Ancient World. (Die 
  Etrusker in der Welt der Antike). trans. Ogilvie, Sheila Ann. London: Edward 
  Arnold Publishers Ltd. 
  Wellard, James. 1973. The Search for the Etruscans. New York: Saturday Review 
  Press. 
TWO OLD CLASSICS, REISSUED (various editions)
  Lawrence, D. H. 1992. Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays. 
  (Elsewhere published as Etruscan Places). Simonetta De Filippis, ed. The Works 
  of D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge University Press. 
  Dennis, George. 1985. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. Pamela Hemphill, 
  ed. Abridged edition. Princeton Univ. Press, NJ. 
THE MOTHER OF ETRUSCAN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
  Fay, George Emory. 1981. A Bibliography of Etruscan Culture and Archaeology. 
  [1498-1981]. OCPS: Occasional Publications in Classical Studies, Monograph no. 
  1. University of Northern Colorado at Greeley. Two volumes: A-J and K-Z. 
  Approximately 5000 entries over nearly five centuries.