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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... become Italy's national language . Although Tuscan most likely occupied a favored position because of certain intrinsic qualities , and though perhaps the constellation of Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch was a singularly brilliant and ...
... become Italy's national language . Although Tuscan most likely occupied a favored position because of certain intrinsic qualities , and though perhaps the constellation of Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch was a singularly brilliant and ...
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... become the model for dictionaries of the French ( 1694 ) and Spanish ( 1726– 39 ) Academies , as well as for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English language ( 1747-1755 ) . But owing to the quarrels over the Questione della lingua ...
... become the model for dictionaries of the French ( 1694 ) and Spanish ( 1726– 39 ) Academies , as well as for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English language ( 1747-1755 ) . But owing to the quarrels over the Questione della lingua ...
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... become altogether too profoundly assimilated , in culture and to some extent in language , by the Etruscans , whom the Romans considered the ever - menacing archenemy of their state . Being political realists , the Romans worried little ...
... become altogether too profoundly assimilated , in culture and to some extent in language , by the Etruscans , whom the Romans considered the ever - menacing archenemy of their state . Being political realists , the Romans worried little ...
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