The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryThrough the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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And since any trustworthy evidence on the racial descent of the Raeti is completely lacking ( also their possibly being Italici cut off from their brethren by the Keltic invasion , has no racial implications , the Italici themselves not ...
And since any trustworthy evidence on the racial descent of the Raeti is completely lacking ( also their possibly being Italici cut off from their brethren by the Keltic invasion , has no racial implications , the Italici themselves not ...
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... about which of course we can know nothing ) upon a variety of earlier dialects of Italy , many of which possibly , but not surely , belonged to another large linguistic family which some call Mediterranean.16 There is nothing ...
... about which of course we can know nothing ) upon a variety of earlier dialects of Italy , many of which possibly , but not surely , belonged to another large linguistic family which some call Mediterranean.16 There is nothing ...
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Possibly it was too dangerous to do so because one or the other of the great powers would inevitably think itself offended or put in a bad light by an independent historian intent on stating the facts . Literature lay fallow in Rome ...
Possibly it was too dangerous to do so because one or the other of the great powers would inevitably think itself offended or put in a bad light by an independent historian intent on stating the facts . Literature lay fallow in Rome ...
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