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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Minor , radishes and walnuts from Syria , apricots , almonds , and cherries from the Near East . The mulberry tree which , as the feeder of silkworms , is the foundation of Italy's great silk industry , came from the Levant in the ...
... Minor , radishes and walnuts from Syria , apricots , almonds , and cherries from the Near East . The mulberry tree which , as the feeder of silkworms , is the foundation of Italy's great silk industry , came from the Levant in the ...
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... Minor , and all the Neolithic and earlier occupiers of the European areas border- ing on the Mediterranean and in its islands certainly did not speak Aryan ( Indo - European , Indo - Germanic ) languages . These lan- guages were ...
... Minor , and all the Neolithic and earlier occupiers of the European areas border- ing on the Mediterranean and in its islands certainly did not speak Aryan ( Indo - European , Indo - Germanic ) languages . These lan- guages were ...
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... Minor , they brought with them , as has been shown , an orientalizing type of Iron Age culture , which spread from Tuscany as its center . It also constituted a convenient bridge across which the Northern and Southern Villanovan ...
... Minor , they brought with them , as has been shown , an orientalizing type of Iron Age culture , which spread from Tuscany as its center . It also constituted a convenient bridge across which the Northern and Southern Villanovan ...
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