Editing Volterra (section)

== In popular culture ==
* Volterra features in ''[[s:Horatius|Horatius]]'', a poem by [[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Lord Macaulay]].<ref name="Gilmour2011">{{cite book|author=David Gilmour|title=The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57cT2FxDdp4C&pg=PT46|date=3 March 2011|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-0-14-192989-7|pages=46–|quote=... who were based in Etruria, where they built hilltop towns such as Volterra, and from where they spread north to the Po ... historian Livy, Thomas Babington Macaulay described the Roman hero Horatius Cocles holding a bridge over 'Father ...}}</ref><ref name="Bentley1988">{{cite book|author=James Bentley|title=A guide to Tuscany|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetotuscany0000bent|url-access=registration|date=5 July 1988|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-046683-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetotuscany0000bent/page/18 18]–|quote=Macaulay's poem 'Horatius' has as its hero a Roman, not the ranks of Lars Porsena invading the city of Rome. Even so Macaulay perfectly catches in his verse ... It took him two years to starve out Volterra. Then Sulla made himself dictator and ...}}</ref>
* [[Linda Proud]]'s ''A Tabernacle for the Sun'' (2005), the first volume of ''The Botticelli Trilogy'', begins with the sack of Volterra in 1472. Volterra is the ancestral home of the Maffei family and the events of 1472 lead directly to the [[Pazzi Conspiracy]] of 1478. The protagonist of the novel is Tommaso de' Maffei, half brother of one of the conspirators.
* Volterra is an important location in [[Stephenie Meyer]]'s [[Twilight (novel series)|''Twilight'' series]]. In the books, Volterra is home to the [[Volturi]], a clan of rich, regal, powerful ancient vampires, who essentially act as the rulers of the world's vampire population. (However, the relevant scenes from the [[The Twilight Saga: New Moon|movie]] were shot in [[Montepulciano]].)
* Volterra is the site of [[Stendhal]]'s famously disastrous encounter in 1819 with his beloved Countess Mathilde Dembowska: she recognised him there, despite his disguise of new clothes and green glasses, and was furious. This is the central incident in his book ''{{Interlanguage link|On Love|fr|3=De l'amour (Stendhal)}}''.<ref name="Green2011">{{cite book|author=F. C. Green|title=Stendhal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMkEyU6l7Q4C&pg=PA142|date=16 June 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-60072-0|pages=142–|quote=In May of 1819, Métilde went to Volterra where her two sons were at school, whilst Stendhal reproached himself bitterly for not having had the courage to demand a decisive explanation of her feelings. But as he wrote rather pathetically: " Mais ...}}</ref><ref name="Wakefield1984">{{cite book|author=David Wakefield|title=Stendhal: The Promise of Happiness : "la Beauté N'est Que la Promesse Du Bonheur" (De L'Amour)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjDrAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Newstead Press|isbn=978-0-85390-027-6|pages=43–|quote=At the time she met Stendhal early in 1818 she was living on the piazza Belgiojoso. From the ... Then, in the Spring of 1819, Metilde announced that she was going to visit her sons at school in Volterra, and she forbade Stendhal to follow her.}}</ref>
* Volterra is mentioned repeatedly in British author [[Dudley Pope]]'s [[Lord Ramage|Captain Nicholas Ramage]] historical nautical series. Gianna, the Marchesa of Volterra and the fictional ruler of the area, features in the first twelve books of the eighteen-book series. The books chart the progress and career of Ramage during the Napoleonic wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, providing readers with well-scripted articulate details of life aboard sailing vessels and conditions at sea of that time.<ref name="Parrill2009">{{cite book|author=Sue Parrill|title=Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekt4aEv5dTcC&pg=PA209|date=31 August 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5803-5|pages=209–|quote=Ramage (1965) #1 Pope's first novel introduces the hero, Lord Nicholas Ramage, lieutenant in the Royal Navy, in the year ... The friends of his family include the Marchesa di Volterra, whom Ramage learns is one of the six noble refugees that ...}}</ref><ref name="Grundner2007">{{cite book|author=Tom Grundner|title=The Ramage Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJNxlJJENLgC&pg=PA1|date=1 October 2007|publisher=Fireship Press|isbn=978-1-934757-05-5|pages=1–|quote=Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage wakes up a dazed and confused young man. ... Landing himself and his men, he rescues the stranded refugees—including the beautiful Marchesa di Volterra—literally from under the hoofs of Napoleon's ...}}</ref>
* Volterra is the site where the novel ''Chimaira'' by the Italian author [[Valerio Massimo Manfredi]] takes place.<ref>{{cite book|title=Panorama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ypE7AQAAIAAJ|volume=1826-1829|date=April 2001|publisher=Mondadori|language=it|pages=223–|quote=CHIMAIRA di Valerio Massimo Manfredi Mondadori, 246 pagine, 30 mila lire. ... con Nino Castelnuovo che perdeva la testa per una bella etrusca reincarnatasi nella Volterra dei giorni nostri.}}</ref>
* [[Valerio Massimo Manfredi]]'s ''The Ancient Curse'' is also set in Volterra, where a statue called 'The Shade of Twilight' is stolen from the Volterra museum.
* Volterra is featured in Jhumpa Lahiri's 2008 collection of short stories ''Unaccustomed Earth''. It is where Hema and Kaushik, the protagonists of the final short story "Going Ashore," travel before they part.<ref name="Pandey2016">{{cite book|author=Anjali Pandey|title=Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-rwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT165|date=25 January 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-34036-8|pages=165–|quote=... they saw, lined on the shelves, hundreds of urns in which the ancient people of Volterra had stored the ashes of their dead. ... The following interaction excerpted from "Unaccustomed Earth" illustrates how Lahiri manages to 'explain' Bengali ...}}</ref>
* Volterra is featured in [[Luchino Visconti]]'s 1965 film ''[[Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa]]'', released as Sandra (Of a Thousand Delights) in the United States and as Of These Thousand Pleasures in the UK.<ref name="Bacon1998">{{cite book|author=Henry Bacon|title=Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM5BV5F8bCYC&pg=PA120|date=28 March 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59960-3|pages=120–|quote=Another starting point was d'Amico's and Visconti's idea of locating the story in the Tuscan city of Volterra. ... Sandra (Cardinale) suspects her mother (Marie Bell) and the mother's lover Gilardini (Renzo Ricci) of betraying her Jewish father to ...}}</ref>
*Volterra's scenery is used for Central City in the 2017 film [[Fullmetal Alchemist (film)]] directed by Fumihiko Sori.
*The 2016 video game ''[[The Town of Light]]'' is set in a fictionalized version of the notorious [[Volterra Psychiatric Hospital]].<ref name=RPS>{{cite web| url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/01/29/the-town-of-light-preview-horror-history/| title=True Horror: The Town Of Light's Historical Inspirations| author=Adam Smith| work=[[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]]| date=2016-01-29| access-date=2017-05-14}}</ref>
* "Volaterrae" is the name given by Dan and Una to their secret place in Far Wood in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''Puck of Pook's Hill.'' They named it from the verse in Lord Macaulay's ''Lays of Ancient Rome'':
<poem>
:::From lordly Volaterrae,
:::Where scowls the far-famed hold
:::Piled by the hands of giants
:::For Godlike Kings of old.</poem>
* Volterra and its relationship with Medici Florence features in the 2018 second season of ''[[Medici: Masters of Florence]]''.