Etruscans

Why are the Etruscans so supremely "mysterious"? In the popular imagination, that is always the first word that comes to mind...

By way of Giorgio Bassani's 1957 novel, The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, we search for ancient clues in the Etruscan Necropolis of Cerveteri.

Who are these Etruscans anyway—real or imagined?

What secrets do they share with the author's own more recent dead —Holocaust victims from Jewish Ferrara?