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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 41
... seems to have been in short supply in Roman as it is in our time , is an adequate stock of meat , especially beef , at prices which all strata of the population can afford . This may be one of the reasons why in terms of the nutritive ...
... seems to have been in short supply in Roman as it is in our time , is an adequate stock of meat , especially beef , at prices which all strata of the population can afford . This may be one of the reasons why in terms of the nutritive ...
Pagina 114
... seem probable , therefore , that the lake villages , showing a stage of culture on the whole less advanced , should be derived ... seems fairly certain , the prongs of this cultural bifurcation met 19 Cf. Kaschnitz - Weinberg 1950 , 341 ...
... seem probable , therefore , that the lake villages , showing a stage of culture on the whole less advanced , should be derived ... seems fairly certain , the prongs of this cultural bifurcation met 19 Cf. Kaschnitz - Weinberg 1950 , 341 ...
Pagina 341
... seem likely that at the time of the con- quest there were left many persons of the original invading Etrus- can stock , whatever it may have been , after several centuries of living among the Italians and , it seems , without ...
... seem likely that at the time of the con- quest there were left many persons of the original invading Etrus- can stock , whatever it may have been , after several centuries of living among the Italians and , it seems , without ...
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