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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... COLONIES It is necessary to distinguish carefully two types of colonies , the Latin and the Roman . The first took their inception and their name from the boundary fortresses which Rome founded in alliance with her friends of the Latin ...
... COLONIES It is necessary to distinguish carefully two types of colonies , the Latin and the Roman . The first took their inception and their name from the boundary fortresses which Rome founded in alliance with her friends of the Latin ...
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... colonies changed in consequence of the dissolution of the Latin League . The twenty - six Roman colonies deduced between 338 and 157 B.C. were mainly coloniae maritimae , designed to protect the coasts . From 157 till 122 , col ...
... colonies changed in consequence of the dissolution of the Latin League . The twenty - six Roman colonies deduced between 338 and 157 B.C. were mainly coloniae maritimae , designed to protect the coasts . From 157 till 122 , col ...
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... colonies on one hand , and Latin and Roman colonies on the other , contains the basis of some linguistic differentiation , which , however , re- mains unverifiable . Until the time of the Gracchan social reforms , colonies served a ...
... colonies on one hand , and Latin and Roman colonies on the other , contains the basis of some linguistic differentiation , which , however , re- mains unverifiable . Until the time of the Gracchan social reforms , colonies served a ...
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