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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... attempted racial typology is at least as hopeless in Italy as it is elsewhere in Europe . True racially pure types ... Attempts to classify the population of the peninsula and of its islands by racial criteria have always met with ...
... attempted racial typology is at least as hopeless in Italy as it is elsewhere in Europe . True racially pure types ... Attempts to classify the population of the peninsula and of its islands by racial criteria have always met with ...
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Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. When attempting to correlate the Terramaricoli with an ethnic name transmitted by ... attempt some sort of correlation at least in terms of linguistics . A word should be said about the shape and ...
Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. When attempting to correlate the Terramaricoli with an ethnic name transmitted by ... attempt some sort of correlation at least in terms of linguistics . A word should be said about the shape and ...
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... attempt at price - fixing ( under Diocletian in 301 ) , raising of taxes to support a court and a bureaucracy of oriental sumptuousness and pomp , and the institution of virtual serfdom for the farmer by allowing neither him nor his ...
... attempt at price - fixing ( under Diocletian in 301 ) , raising of taxes to support a court and a bureaucracy of oriental sumptuousness and pomp , and the institution of virtual serfdom for the farmer by allowing neither him nor his ...
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