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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 314
... rules of spelling and grammar . What he achieves may not always conform to those rules , but neither will it be a faithful rendering of what he would say . " We have no text which is a faithful record of even one mode of contemporary ...
... rules of spelling and grammar . What he achieves may not always conform to those rules , but neither will it be a faithful rendering of what he would say . " We have no text which is a faithful record of even one mode of contemporary ...
Pagina 349
... rule the nations with thy sway these shall be thine arts to crown Peace with Law , to spare the humbled , and to ... rules . All the more so because any literary en- deavor , apart from ritual chants and possibly other occasional poetry ...
... rule the nations with thy sway these shall be thine arts to crown Peace with Law , to spare the humbled , and to ... rules . All the more so because any literary en- deavor , apart from ritual chants and possibly other occasional poetry ...
Pagina 403
... rules of rhetoric which the instruction in secular disciplines is trying to put over . For as the style of this very letter indicates , I do not shrink from the shock of metacismus , I do not avoid the mixing in of bar- barisms , I ...
... rules of rhetoric which the instruction in secular disciplines is trying to put over . For as the style of this very letter indicates , I do not shrink from the shock of metacismus , I do not avoid the mixing in of bar- barisms , I ...
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