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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... hand the northward flow of the southern type of Iron Age culture , which in the regions of Tuscany found its ultimate and most successful propagators in the non - Italian Etrus- cans , 51 whereas on the other hand it facilitated the ...
... hand the northward flow of the southern type of Iron Age culture , which in the regions of Tuscany found its ultimate and most successful propagators in the non - Italian Etrus- cans , 51 whereas on the other hand it facilitated the ...
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... hand- books for the information needed to comprehend the following exposition.1 But Appendix I to this chapter ... hands of the enemy . Yet , although the Roman attitude in such matters was doubtless at one time sincere , we may well ...
... hand- books for the information needed to comprehend the following exposition.1 But Appendix I to this chapter ... hands of the enemy . Yet , although the Roman attitude in such matters was doubtless at one time sincere , we may well ...
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... hand with the poor urban and rural working populace , on the other hand with the greater nobles who saw their feudal society and income threatened by a new social order . Yet through these stormy seas the Communes , under republican or ...
... hand with the poor urban and rural working populace , on the other hand with the greater nobles who saw their feudal society and income threatened by a new social order . Yet through these stormy seas the Communes , under republican or ...
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