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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... provinces and regions of Italy whose names will occur many times in the following pages . 7 Beginning in the northwest , Piedmont lies , as its name implies , at the foot of the mountains . Descending from the highest peaks of the Alps ...
... provinces and regions of Italy whose names will occur many times in the following pages . 7 Beginning in the northwest , Piedmont lies , as its name implies , at the foot of the mountains . Descending from the highest peaks of the Alps ...
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... provinces , the name Italia designated just one of the several provinces that con- stituted the empire . The administrative division of the state under Diocletian ( 284-305 ) made of Italia one of the four praefecturae , which included ...
... provinces , the name Italia designated just one of the several provinces that con- stituted the empire . The administrative division of the state under Diocletian ( 284-305 ) made of Italia one of the four praefecturae , which included ...
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... provinces . Thanks to the legisla- tion of the Gracchi , who wished to strengthen this class in order to keep a morally declining and greedy senate in check , their powers increased continuously . A good part of the last century of the ...
... provinces . Thanks to the legisla- tion of the Gracchi , who wished to strengthen this class in order to keep a morally declining and greedy senate in check , their powers increased continuously . A good part of the last century of the ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.c. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic Normans northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Volsci Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words