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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 94
... battles for Lebensraum that Europe witnessed . The earliest Danubians , judg- ing from the finds of tomb furnishings ... battle - axes and flint daggers replace the hunters ' tools in the graves of the males , and the excavated villages ...
... battles for Lebensraum that Europe witnessed . The earliest Danubians , judg- ing from the finds of tomb furnishings ... battle - axes and flint daggers replace the hunters ' tools in the graves of the males , and the excavated villages ...
Pagina 346
... battle and after the Etruscan decline had begun subsequent to their military defeats . Also the Greeks of Magna Graecia seem to have exerted no weighty influence upon earliest Rome . I have already mentioned how the fall of Rome before ...
... battle and after the Etruscan decline had begun subsequent to their military defeats . Also the Greeks of Magna Graecia seem to have exerted no weighty influence upon earliest Rome . I have already mentioned how the fall of Rome before ...
Pagina 369
... battle of Strassburg , in 357 , only 13,000 Roman legionnaires beat the Alemanni , whereas , a little later , the battle of Hadrianople , of 378 , saw a not greater number annihilated by the rebellious Visigoths . ) But this , too , was ...
... battle of Strassburg , in 357 , only 13,000 Roman legionnaires beat the Alemanni , whereas , a little later , the battle of Hadrianople , of 378 , saw a not greater number annihilated by the rebellious Visigoths . ) But this , too , was ...
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