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The Lions of Messapia, a story which is settled between historical reality and imagination, gives us at times the illusion to live together with the characters the most significant moments of the history of the salentine peninsula, through fierce disputes among ruling dynasties and the everlasting fight against the continuous pressure of the powerful Taras. The Messapic civilization is for many verses similar to the Etruscan one, it too was incorporated without escape under the Roman rule. But, as regards the Etruscan people lots of authors have competed themselves in writing imaginary stories, gifting us wide insights of the life and the manners of that civilization, it has not happened for the Messapians about whom have been only written erudite and rigorously historical researches. By this novel the author covers this gap and get us closer to our ancestors from whom we should learn the love and the respect for our land and for the culture for the culture that characterizes it.
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