Gabriele Cateni , to whose memory the day was devoted to studies of which this volume public Acts, liked to say it does not recognize in himself the image of a scholar , but to be especially interested in the dissemination of knowledge. And certainly this second aspect was present in his work , as evidenced by the numerous interventions of an educational or informative , more generally , from the works of orientation guides the Museum Guarnacci catalogs of exhibitions in collaboration with some daily newspapers. But Gabriel Cateni also had on many occasions proved to be a careful researcher and informed and has left the scientific contributions of thickness in different fields of the study of antiquity. His main interest was directed several times to the period of formation of the Etruscan city of Volterra, the crucial phase of the Late Bronze Age reaches the end of the Early Iron Age . This argument is precisely dedicated the volume here presented , the volume containing contributions from scholars and colleagues Cateni own thesis to analyze , on the basis of new data and hypotheses of the study, archaeological, topographical and historical area of Volterra ( from the closet to the establishment of the Lemon Casalvecchio , the structure of the necropolis to the arrangement of the Acropolis ), the Villanovan phase in the archaic , precisely at the moment when Volterra completes its process of urban formation and is also defined as the center hegemon of the region.