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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 55
... Dante himself could hardly have perceived ) , in the history of a great number of lan- guages out of whose dialects a literary standard was to emerge , the process never occurred as Dante envisioned it . Rather , it came about in such a ...
... Dante himself could hardly have perceived ) , in the history of a great number of lan- guages out of whose dialects a literary standard was to emerge , the process never occurred as Dante envisioned it . Rather , it came about in such a ...
Pagina 56
... Dante himself , also a true Florentine , no matter how much he , the Ghibelline and imperialist , came to ab- hor and revile his home town because it went Guelphic and papist . So it is true that even before Dante , Tuscan ...
... Dante himself , also a true Florentine , no matter how much he , the Ghibelline and imperialist , came to ab- hor and revile his home town because it went Guelphic and papist . So it is true that even before Dante , Tuscan ...
Pagina 60
... Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch was a singularly brilliant and propitious one , I should not for a moment believe that Tuscan made Dante , as some scholars seem to think , but that on the con- trary Dante made Tuscan into Italian ...
... Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch was a singularly brilliant and propitious one , I should not for a moment believe that Tuscan made Dante , as some scholars seem to think , but that on the con- trary Dante made Tuscan into Italian ...
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