In the Spring of 1927, the famous English writer and poet D. H. Lawrence interrupted his stay in Florence to travel around Italy, touching on the Maremma. Lawrence had always had a keen interest in the Etruscans and so was so fascinated and taken with the archaeological sites in the Maremma that he wrote "Etruscan places", full of his poetical impressions of this ancient civilisation and land, especially Vulci and Tarquinia.

Life
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, a small town in Nottinghamshire, in England's industrial Midlands. Lawrence was very close to his mother, who did all she could to save her children from an inevitable industrial working class future, given that their father was a miner. Hence Lawrence's hostility towards the mining industry, which had prematurely destroyed his father's strength, along with the English countryside and the idyll of his birthplace. This explains Lawrence's "primitivism" and the attraction he felt throughout his life for unspoilt places, untouched by what he considered to be the devastating monster of industry. One such place was, needless to say, the Italian Maremma.

Lawrence left the shores of England in 1912, accompanied Frieda Weekley, by the wife of one of his university professors, whom he later married in 1914. That was the start of a nomadic life: Lawrence spent virtually the rest of his life travelling around the world (apart from a brief stay in England during WW1) in the search for a healthy climate and to satisfy his restless nature. Driven by his passion to find a land untouched by modern civilisation and a lifestyle in close communion with Nature. This he found in the Maremma.

Despite his travelling, Lawrence was a prolific writer. He died of tuberculosis in Vence (Provence - FR) in 1930.