Fictional Treatment
The story of Lars Porsenna and the Roman hostage Cloelia is the basis of the libretto Il trionfo di Clelia (1762) by Pietro Metastasio.
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842) by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) tells the legendary story of the Roman Horatius defending the bridge into Rome against Lars Porsena's oncoming Etruscan army.
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