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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 59
... Tuscan is valid at all , as I think it is , only those few who knew Latin could be cognizant of it , and only they could favor Tuscan over the other Italian dialects for this particular reason . The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew ...
... Tuscan is valid at all , as I think it is , only those few who knew Latin could be cognizant of it , and only they could favor Tuscan over the other Italian dialects for this particular reason . The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew ...
Pagina 60
... Tuscan would have had no greater chance than Roman or Neapolitan or Lombard . Indeed I should go so far as to suggest that if Dante had been a child of Naples , and , providentially , Boccaccio and Petrarch also , Neapolitan and not Tuscan ...
... Tuscan would have had no greater chance than Roman or Neapolitan or Lombard . Indeed I should go so far as to suggest that if Dante had been a child of Naples , and , providentially , Boccaccio and Petrarch also , Neapolitan and not Tuscan ...
Pagina 63
... Tuscan language by the A.d.C. , " and " Dictionary of the Tuscan language compiled from the writers and the usage of the city of Florence , " respectively ) were laid aside as too biased in favor of Florence . The first edition of 1612 ...
... Tuscan language by the A.d.C. , " and " Dictionary of the Tuscan language compiled from the writers and the usage of the city of Florence , " respectively ) were laid aside as too biased in favor of Florence . The first edition of 1612 ...
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