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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... continued cultural superiority that has characterized the western provinces . From this generalization one may except some purely local phe- nomena , such as Ravenna , Venice , Rimini , which despite their east- ern location became ...
... continued cultural superiority that has characterized the western provinces . From this generalization one may except some purely local phe- nomena , such as Ravenna , Venice , Rimini , which despite their east- ern location became ...
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... continued to increase until it reached , in 1900 , about 32,000,000 . Today , something over half a century later , despite two world wars and the bloody , futile Mussolinian enterprise of the Abyssinian conquest , Italy's involvement ...
... continued to increase until it reached , in 1900 , about 32,000,000 . Today , something over half a century later , despite two world wars and the bloody , futile Mussolinian enterprise of the Abyssinian conquest , Italy's involvement ...
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... continued the Aurelia as far as Are- late ( north of Marseilles ) and Vada Sabatia . In this manner the Etruscan coast and Liguria ( Saturnia , Graviscae , Luna , Dertona , Narbo ) were secured and the way paved - literally for the ...
... continued the Aurelia as far as Are- late ( north of Marseilles ) and Vada Sabatia . In this manner the Etruscan coast and Liguria ( Saturnia , Graviscae , Luna , Dertona , Narbo ) were secured and the way paved - literally for the ...
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