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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... , seconded by the usual human desire for aggrandizement and success , personal and national , will lead in good time to the subjugation of all Italy . CHAPTER XXI The Spread of Latin in Italy While my THE ORIGINS OF ROME 263.
... , seconded by the usual human desire for aggrandizement and success , personal and national , will lead in good time to the subjugation of all Italy . CHAPTER XXI The Spread of Latin in Italy While my THE ORIGINS OF ROME 263.
Pagina 305
... success stories of the first century after Christ ( reported with tongue in cheek by Petronius in a novel entitled Satyricon ) is that of the freedman Trimalchio , told by the hero himself at a blatantly sumptuous dinner party , the ...
... success stories of the first century after Christ ( reported with tongue in cheek by Petronius in a novel entitled Satyricon ) is that of the freedman Trimalchio , told by the hero himself at a blatantly sumptuous dinner party , the ...
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... successful , are spoken of as the Carolingian Renais- sance . To put it briefly , he encouraged learning and a ... success than they deserved , and for a short time only . Similar to what I have previously noted for preceding cen ...
... successful , are spoken of as the Carolingian Renais- sance . To put it briefly , he encouraged learning and a ... success than they deserved , and for a short time only . Similar to what I have previously noted for preceding cen ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written