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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... ancient Italy and in part even during the Middle Ages . The vine and the fig tree are not really autochthonous in the Apennine peninsula , although their introduction goes back to prehistoric times . The plane tree and the pomegranate ...
... ancient Italy and in part even during the Middle Ages . The vine and the fig tree are not really autochthonous in the Apennine peninsula , although their introduction goes back to prehistoric times . The plane tree and the pomegranate ...
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... ancient authors , * the Aborigines and the Oenotrians , have been used by old and , alas , modern writers with so many meanings that it is as hopeless as it would be useless to try to unravel the skein of confusion . The Aborigines ...
... ancient authors , * the Aborigines and the Oenotrians , have been used by old and , alas , modern writers with so many meanings that it is as hopeless as it would be useless to try to unravel the skein of confusion . The Aborigines ...
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... ancient Iguuium ( now Gubbio ) in the province of Umbria , the earliest of which date probably from the third century B.C. , but all of which render most likely an older form of speech ( in the manner of ritual texts and ritual language ...
... ancient Iguuium ( now Gubbio ) in the province of Umbria , the earliest of which date probably from the third century B.C. , but all of which render most likely an older form of speech ( in the manner of ritual texts and ritual language ...
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