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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... republic , the picture was totally different , though worsening with the progress of time and the waxing power of im- perialistic Rome . The older history of Rome is full of references to the wealth of forests of Italy , inherited from ...
... republic , the picture was totally different , though worsening with the progress of time and the waxing power of im- perialistic Rome . The older history of Rome is full of references to the wealth of forests of Italy , inherited from ...
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Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. THE REPUBLIC It may be well to begin with an ingenious and pithy epitome of the rise and fall of Rome . " During the first three centuries of the Republic , the wholesome life of an agricultural ...
Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. THE REPUBLIC It may be well to begin with an ingenious and pithy epitome of the rise and fall of Rome . " During the first three centuries of the Republic , the wholesome life of an agricultural ...
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... Republic . It is true that ethnic or racial mixture occurred ; but it was not the biological transformation which caused the corruption of the mores and the culture of the Roman nation . If , nonetheless , it can be justly maintained ...
... Republic . It is true that ethnic or racial mixture occurred ; but it was not the biological transformation which caused the corruption of the mores and the culture of the Roman nation . If , nonetheless , it can be justly maintained ...
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