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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 185
... held a different opinion be- fore . That the Etruscans were , though not brothers , at least cousins of the ' Indo - Europeans ' ; 16 that they were Nordics ; 17 that they 14 Cf. , for example , Fiesel 1931 , 52-53 ( based on Randall ...
... held a different opinion be- fore . That the Etruscans were , though not brothers , at least cousins of the ' Indo - Europeans ' ; 16 that they were Nordics ; 17 that they 14 Cf. , for example , Fiesel 1931 , 52-53 ( based on Randall ...
Pagina 353
... held under the patronage or in the very house of an eminent personage . Even what comes nearest to a type that Americans might call a public school re- sembled in many ways actually the British type of public school , that is , it was ...
... held under the patronage or in the very house of an eminent personage . Even what comes nearest to a type that Americans might call a public school re- sembled in many ways actually the British type of public school , that is , it was ...
Pagina 399
... held their course serenely . In good time , owing in no small measure to the establishment of free communal in the place of the illiberal cleri- cal schools , which had monopolized education for the purposes of the church , they should ...
... held their course serenely . In good time , owing in no small measure to the establishment of free communal in the place of the illiberal cleri- cal schools , which had monopolized education for the purposes of the church , they should ...
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