hey probably came from the north, and were pushed south by later immigrations, until they were crowded into the southeastern corner of the peninsula (Calabria). Here th

nd Italians, were the Venetians and the Ligurians, the f

federation of twelve cities between the Arno and the Tiber. Of these cities the most noted were Volsinii, the head of the confederacy, Veii, Volaterrae, Caere, and Clusium. This people also formed scattering settlements in other parts of Italy, but gained no firm foothold. At one time, in the sixth century, they were in power at Rome. Corsica,

Aryan race, a people that lived in earliest times possibly in Scandinavi

e building of houses; the use of wagons and of boats; of fire in preparing food, and of salt in seasoning it. They could make vario

which is bounded on the east and south by mountains, on the west b

y two rivers, the Tiber, and its tributary, the Anio. Hills rise here and there; as Soracte in the northeast, the promontory of Circeium in the southwest, Janiculum near Rome, and t

prung up other towns, as Lanuvium, Aricia, Tusculu

ead. An annual festival was celebrated with great solemnity by the magistrates on the Alban Mount, called the

ration: