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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... less numerous and less dynamic predecessors . For this type of cultural spread I shall use the term of expansion by migration . Therefore , organic evolution of culture is not neces- sarily proof for purely local development with total ...
... less numerous and less dynamic predecessors . For this type of cultural spread I shall use the term of expansion by migration . Therefore , organic evolution of culture is not neces- sarily proof for purely local development with total ...
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... less and less reward . In addition , agriculture makes no technical advances whatever , and neither the fertility of the soil nor the efficiency of human labor is augmented . Although there is no evidence of soil exhaustion , and ...
... less and less reward . In addition , agriculture makes no technical advances whatever , and neither the fertility of the soil nor the efficiency of human labor is augmented . Although there is no evidence of soil exhaustion , and ...
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... less important and less great than the comedians , probably because their choice of subject and the exigencies of appropriate treatment gave them less freedom to Romanize their Greek material . Both Pacuvius ( about 220-130 B.C. ) and ...
... less important and less great than the comedians , probably because their choice of subject and the exigencies of appropriate treatment gave them less freedom to Romanize their Greek material . Both Pacuvius ( about 220-130 B.C. ) and ...
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