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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 103
... period , at least in Li- guria . 10 Similarly , Patroni declines to consider the Mesolithic as some kind of cultural hiatus , but sees in it the period in which the trans- formation from Palaeolithic to Neolithic is accomplished on ...
... period , at least in Li- guria . 10 Similarly , Patroni declines to consider the Mesolithic as some kind of cultural hiatus , but sees in it the period in which the trans- formation from Palaeolithic to Neolithic is accomplished on ...
Pagina 223
... period . " 13 But against this view grave chronological objections must be raised . If one accepts the " beginning of the period of the spread of Iron Age cultures " as the tenth century B.C. , and there can scarcely be any serious ...
... period . " 13 But against this view grave chronological objections must be raised . If one accepts the " beginning of the period of the spread of Iron Age cultures " as the tenth century B.C. , and there can scarcely be any serious ...
Pagina 358
... period , and I have already mentioned the names of the writers who were instrumental in introducing the fundamental ideas and laying the literary and linguistic groundwork . The cul- mination of their endeavors was to be reached in the ...
... period , and I have already mentioned the names of the writers who were instrumental in introducing the fundamental ideas and laying the literary and linguistic groundwork . The cul- mination of their endeavors was to be reached in the ...
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