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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 295
... latifundia ; the replacement of the free workers by slaves who came to Italy as a consequence of Rome's new imperialistic conquests outside of the peninsula ; the shrinkage of the free Italian population owing to their continued ...
... latifundia ; the replacement of the free workers by slaves who came to Italy as a consequence of Rome's new imperialistic conquests outside of the peninsula ; the shrinkage of the free Italian population owing to their continued ...
Pagina 298
... latifundia and made that kind of pernicious land ownership respectable . In 200 B.C. the words which Manius Curius had uttered only ninety years earlier must have sounded hollow and odd ; he had said , “ after celebrating triumphs and ...
... latifundia and made that kind of pernicious land ownership respectable . In 200 B.C. the words which Manius Curius had uttered only ninety years earlier must have sounded hollow and odd ; he had said , “ after celebrating triumphs and ...
Pagina 299
... latifundia ruined Italy . " 12 In a way this is true . But the deeper truth probably is that " the latifundia and corruption are but different aspects of the same social phenomenon . If the moral disintegration was due to the ...
... latifundia ruined Italy . " 12 In a way this is true . But the deeper truth probably is that " the latifundia and corruption are but different aspects of the same social phenomenon . If the moral disintegration was due to the ...
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