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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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Pagina 155
... attack and dislodge them . And since we find ourselves on or not far from the steppe regions of eastern Europe and western Asia , what comes to mind are the recurrent periods of desiccation of the steppe , as conjectured , with good ...
... attack and dislodge them . And since we find ourselves on or not far from the steppe regions of eastern Europe and western Asia , what comes to mind are the recurrent periods of desiccation of the steppe , as conjectured , with good ...
Pagina 309
... attack by foreign troops since the cry " Hannibal ante portas " arose . But under Aurelianus ( 270-275 ) it became necessary for the first time since those perilous days to fortify Rome with a wall of brick twenty feet high , twelve ...
... attack by foreign troops since the cry " Hannibal ante portas " arose . But under Aurelianus ( 270-275 ) it became necessary for the first time since those perilous days to fortify Rome with a wall of brick twenty feet high , twelve ...
Pagina 369
... attack the Empire as organized tribes rather than as desultory hordes , it seems that their actual fighting strength was surprisingly small -luckily for the Romans who had no great numbers of soldiers to put in the field against them ...
... attack the Empire as organized tribes rather than as desultory hordes , it seems that their actual fighting strength was surprisingly small -luckily for the Romans who had no great numbers of soldiers to put in the field against them ...
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