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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... later date , but certainly cannot be recognized so early . The term Danubian , associated rather with a Central Euro- pean culture and comfortably neutral as to race , might prove more useful , though not more precise ethnically . That ...
... later date , but certainly cannot be recognized so early . The term Danubian , associated rather with a Central Euro- pean culture and comfortably neutral as to race , might prove more useful , though not more precise ethnically . That ...
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... later than the movement of these peoples into and within Italy , later even than their permanent settlements and , so to speak , their ' naturalization ' in Italy . " 14 It is true , of course , that our earliest texts are of Iron Age ...
... later than the movement of these peoples into and within Italy , later even than their permanent settlements and , so to speak , their ' naturalization ' in Italy . " 14 It is true , of course , that our earliest texts are of Iron Age ...
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... later . We find them at Tolfa , a site in the hills of southern Etruria , and in various locations of the Alban Hills southeast of Rome . When the ' Etruscans ' arrived from Asia Minor , they brought with them , as has been shown , an ...
... later . We find them at Tolfa , a site in the hills of southern Etruria , and in various locations of the Alban Hills southeast of Rome . When the ' Etruscans ' arrived from Asia Minor , they brought with them , as has been shown , an ...
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