<Li> Volterra features in Horatius, a poem by Lord Macaulay . </Li> <Li> 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 . </Li> <Li> Volterra is an important location in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series . In the books, Volterra is home to the Volturi, a coven of rich, regal, powerful ancient vampires, who essentially act as the rulers of the world's vampire population . (However, the relevant scenes from the movie were shot in Montepulciano .) </Li> <Li> 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 On Love (fr). </Li>

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