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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Greek is spoken . The controversy as to the provenance of this idiom in southern Italy has been going on for three quarters of a century . Some say that the Greek now used in these villages goes back to the settlements of Byzantine Greeks ...
... Greek is spoken . The controversy as to the provenance of this idiom in southern Italy has been going on for three quarters of a century . Some say that the Greek now used in these villages goes back to the settlements of Byzantine Greeks ...
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... Greek writers had great influence on nascent Roman letters , in fact they sowed the Greek seeds for a first Latin literary harvest ( with consequences which in some aspects led to clashes of Greek literary form and Latin linguistic ...
... Greek writers had great influence on nascent Roman letters , in fact they sowed the Greek seeds for a first Latin literary harvest ( with consequences which in some aspects led to clashes of Greek literary form and Latin linguistic ...
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... Greek models . ( Also in religion and the figurative arts the Romans were enormously indebted to Greece : the Greek pantheon was summarily appropriated , and Greek and Roman divinities of com- parable attributes and spheres were simply ...
... Greek models . ( Also in religion and the figurative arts the Romans were enormously indebted to Greece : the Greek pantheon was summarily appropriated , and Greek and Roman divinities of com- parable attributes and spheres were simply ...
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