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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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CHAPTER XXV The Literary Language In Chapter VI , I spoke of a literary language , modern Standard Italian , which is largely the Tuscan of Dante , augmented and changed by subsequent historic and linguistic developments .
CHAPTER XXV The Literary Language In Chapter VI , I spoke of a literary language , modern Standard Italian , which is largely the Tuscan of Dante , augmented and changed by subsequent historic and linguistic developments .
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All the more so because any literary en- deavor , apart from ritual chants and possibly other occasional poetry , was completely absent . Whatever writing we have before the end of the third century B.C. is rough - hewn , uneven ...
All the more so because any literary en- deavor , apart from ritual chants and possibly other occasional poetry , was completely absent . Whatever writing we have before the end of the third century B.C. is rough - hewn , uneven ...
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A number of Greek writers had great influence on nascent Roman letters , in fact they sowed the Greek seeds for a first Latin literary harvest ( with consequences which in some aspects led to clashes of Greek literary form and Latin ...
A number of Greek writers had great influence on nascent Roman letters , in fact they sowed the Greek seeds for a first Latin literary harvest ( with consequences which in some aspects led to clashes of Greek literary form and Latin ...
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