The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryThrough the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 279
It continued in Sicily , leading from Messina through Panormus ( Palermo ) to Eryx at the western tip of the triangular island . It need not be added that these ancient highways formed only the principal lines of a dense network of ...
It continued in Sicily , leading from Messina through Panormus ( Palermo ) to Eryx at the western tip of the triangular island . It need not be added that these ancient highways formed only the principal lines of a dense network of ...
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Yet the continued discords between the emperor and the pope , and the Italian princes among themselves , permitted the Moslems to pursue with impunity their predatory forays upon Italy as far north as Gaeta and Monte Cassino .
Yet the continued discords between the emperor and the pope , and the Italian princes among themselves , permitted the Moslems to pursue with impunity their predatory forays upon Italy as far north as Gaeta and Monte Cassino .
Pagina 404
No wonder that a linguistic reform , always far too weak a mortar for joining together heterogeneous cultural bricks and rocks , not only was ineffective in maintaining the continued coherence of the empire , which disintegrated soon ...
No wonder that a linguistic reform , always far too weak a mortar for joining together heterogeneous cultural bricks and rocks , not only was ineffective in maintaining the continued coherence of the empire , which disintegrated soon ...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and History |
| Autore | Ernst Pulgram |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa, riveduta |
| Editore | Harvard University Press, 1958 |
| ISBN | 0837124387, 9780837124384 |
| Lunghezza | 465 pagine |
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