The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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... Greek is spoken . The controversy as to the provenance of this idiom in southern Italy has been going on for three quarters of a century . Some say that the Greek now used in these villages goes back to the settlements of Byzantine Greeks ...
... Greek is spoken . The controversy as to the provenance of this idiom in southern Italy has been going on for three quarters of a century . Some say that the Greek now used in these villages goes back to the settlements of Byzantine Greeks ...
Pagina 326
... Greek influence , retained this rough - hewn , lapidary , conservative character . Archaisms , especially in public ... Greek culture and Greek language , as they formed with the aid of Greek teachers and on the model of Greek On the ...
... Greek influence , retained this rough - hewn , lapidary , conservative character . Archaisms , especially in public ... Greek culture and Greek language , as they formed with the aid of Greek teachers and on the model of Greek On the ...
Pagina 350
... Greek education on rhetoric training and preparation for a political career were neither un- welcome nor foreign to Romans . In matters of practical politics the Romans could learn nothing from the Greeks , their gifted and witty ...
... Greek education on rhetoric training and preparation for a political career were neither un- welcome nor foreign to Romans . In matters of practical politics the Romans could learn nothing from the Greeks , their gifted and witty ...
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