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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... period , at least in Liguria.10 Similarly , Patroni declines to consider the Mesolithic as some kind of cultural hiatus , but sees in it the period in which the transformation from Palaeolithic to Neolithic is accomplished on Italian ...
... period , at least in Liguria.10 Similarly , Patroni declines to consider the Mesolithic as some kind of cultural hiatus , but sees in it the period in which the transformation from Palaeolithic to Neolithic is accomplished on Italian ...
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... period . " 18 But against this view grave chronological objections must be raised . If one accepts the " beginning of the period of the spread of Iron Age cultures " as the tenth century B.C. , and there can scarcely be any serious ...
... period . " 18 But against this view grave chronological objections must be raised . If one accepts the " beginning of the period of the spread of Iron Age cultures " as the tenth century B.C. , and there can scarcely be any serious ...
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... period , are consistently guided by a desire to write good , that is , Classical or at least urban , and urbane , Latin . More often than not , they have not mastered it , either because of geographical or chronological remoteness from ...
... period , are consistently guided by a desire to write good , that is , Classical or at least urban , and urbane , Latin . More often than not , they have not mastered it , either because of geographical or chronological remoteness from ...
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