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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 56
... true Florentine , no matter how much he , the Ghibelline and imperialist , came to ab- hor and revile his home town because it went Guelphic and papist . So it is true that even before Dante , Tuscan , particularly Floren- tine , had ...
... true Florentine , no matter how much he , the Ghibelline and imperialist , came to ab- hor and revile his home town because it went Guelphic and papist . So it is true that even before Dante , Tuscan , particularly Floren- tine , had ...
Pagina 167
... true , but not both need be true , and neither is proved to be true : for the equation Camuni = Euganei = Terramaricoli equates only onomastically but without the slightest factual justi- fication , over the treacherous , merely ...
... true , but not both need be true , and neither is proved to be true : for the equation Camuni = Euganei = Terramaricoli equates only onomastically but without the slightest factual justi- fication , over the treacherous , merely ...
Pagina 304
... true that ethnic or racial mixture occurred ; but it was not the biological transformation which caused the corruption of the mores and the culture of the Roman nation . If , nonetheless , it can be justly maintained that the influence ...
... true that ethnic or racial mixture occurred ; but it was not the biological transformation which caused the corruption of the mores and the culture of the Roman nation . If , nonetheless , it can be justly maintained that the influence ...
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