the Museo Lapidario Maffeiano is one of the glories of Verona's culture:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_lapidario_maffeiano
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Lapidario_Maffeiano .
It hosts collections of Roman, Greek, Etruscan, Venetic and Arabian epigraphic and funerary art. Of interest, the collection of Etruscan cinerary urns, which provide the visitor not only with the living aspect of the deceased but also with visions inside the mysterious, sometime peaceful, sometime violent Etruscan civilization:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization .
Concerning the Etruscan language, it is possible to say that short text, mainly of funerary subject, are comprehensible, although some terms remain obscure. Longer Etruscan texts need bilingual inscriptions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrgi_Tablets .
Salutations
Giancarlo
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