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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 253
... enemy not far from Rome in a position to sever the important Via Flaminia and to block the Tiber . What was , then , the relationship of the Latians to the Etruscans in the earliest times ? The Etruscans must have established them ...
... enemy not far from Rome in a position to sever the important Via Flaminia and to block the Tiber . What was , then , the relationship of the Latians to the Etruscans in the earliest times ? The Etruscans must have established them ...
Pagina 254
... enemy . Even if they were not politically allied in a modern sense they were in some measure made aware of their relatedness by a common Latian religious festival of the luppiter Latiaris which , as I men- tioned , took place annually ...
... enemy . Even if they were not politically allied in a modern sense they were in some measure made aware of their relatedness by a common Latian religious festival of the luppiter Latiaris which , as I men- tioned , took place annually ...
Pagina 264
... enemy . Yet , although the Roman attitude in such matters was doubtless at one time sincere , we may well question how long this sincerity continued and whether the injuries com- plained of were not sometimes the result of Roman ...
... enemy . Yet , although the Roman attitude in such matters was doubtless at one time sincere , we may well question how long this sincerity continued and whether the injuries com- plained of were not sometimes the result of Roman ...
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