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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 19
... peninsula . Until about 500 B.C. the Greeks called Firaxía only the southernmost part of Calabria , from the straits of Messina north as far as the isthmus between the Gulf of S. Eufemia and the town of Squillace . The word can be ...
... peninsula . Until about 500 B.C. the Greeks called Firaxía only the southernmost part of Calabria , from the straits of Messina north as far as the isthmus between the Gulf of S. Eufemia and the town of Squillace . The word can be ...
Pagina 132
... peninsula seems to have been continuously occupied by the same ethnic groups from neolithic times on , although un- doubtedly it was exposed to cultural and limited ethnic influences from the Balkan peninsula . Some scholars think that ...
... peninsula seems to have been continuously occupied by the same ethnic groups from neolithic times on , although un- doubtedly it was exposed to cultural and limited ethnic influences from the Balkan peninsula . Some scholars think that ...
Pagina 136
... peninsula . If the lat- ter be called , for want of a better name , and without prejudice to their racial purity and autochthony , Mediterraneans , the former could with comfortable neutrality and without claim to racial homogeneity be ...
... peninsula . If the lat- ter be called , for want of a better name , and without prejudice to their racial purity and autochthony , Mediterraneans , the former could with comfortable neutrality and without claim to racial homogeneity be ...
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