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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... buried in a twisted position , adorned with marine shells at chest and forehead , and at twenty - seven feet , called Stratum I , there came to light a double burial of a youth and an elderly woman . This last is the oldest testimony of ...
... buried in a twisted position , adorned with marine shells at chest and forehead , and at twenty - seven feet , called Stratum I , there came to light a double burial of a youth and an elderly woman . This last is the oldest testimony of ...
Pagina 222
... burial places we know , excepting perhaps the vast popular urn- field cemeteries in which every burial takes so little space and where some ' democratic ' idea seems to have prevailed , are those of well - to - do persons , of warriors ...
... burial places we know , excepting perhaps the vast popular urn- field cemeteries in which every burial takes so little space and where some ' democratic ' idea seems to have prevailed , are those of well - to - do persons , of warriors ...
Pagina 242
... buried after his death , not cremated like his predecessor Romulus , a Latian . The members of the famous ... burial rite is inhumation , as long as ' Roman ' is used in a geographic and not political or linguistic sense . Nor ...
... buried after his death , not cremated like his predecessor Romulus , a Latian . The members of the famous ... burial rite is inhumation , as long as ' Roman ' is used in a geographic and not political or linguistic sense . Nor ...
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