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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 32
... tion , and soil conservation would restore them for future genera- tions . In the meantime , the land cannot nourish the teeming and ever - increasing masses . Birth control is not practiced widely or in- telligently in Italy , partly ...
... tion , and soil conservation would restore them for future genera- tions . In the meantime , the land cannot nourish the teeming and ever - increasing masses . Birth control is not practiced widely or in- telligently in Italy , partly ...
Pagina 59
... tion of a popular preference , and Dante , in calling his a volgare illustre , aulico , curiale , cardinale , indicated by this very choice of epithets that he was aiming chiefly for noble and courtly qualities rather than amenities and ...
... tion of a popular preference , and Dante , in calling his a volgare illustre , aulico , curiale , cardinale , indicated by this very choice of epithets that he was aiming chiefly for noble and courtly qualities rather than amenities and ...
Pagina 283
... tion of the city and the plain of Latium . Especially the Volsci in the moun- tains southeast of Rome proved an implacable and obstinate enemy . ) 392 390 Conquest of Veii . Gauls sack Rome . ( How insignificant Rome still was to the ...
... tion of the city and the plain of Latium . Especially the Volsci in the moun- tains southeast of Rome proved an implacable and obstinate enemy . ) 392 390 Conquest of Veii . Gauls sack Rome . ( How insignificant Rome still was to the ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words written