A history of earliest Italy

Abstract

Massimo Pallottino looks at the wide range of pre-Roman peoples, languages and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the Italic world. He shows us the relationships between the various peoples of the peninsula, and the influence of Mycenae and Greece in trade and colonization. This story unfolds from the Bronze Age to the unification of the Italian peninsula and Sicily by Rome. The author - an experienced archaeologist - has sifted the physical remains, the evidence of language, and the cultures and institutions of the varied peoples who make up the story of early Italy.