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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 28
... Hence to claim ' Roman ' descent for all Italians is biologically and histori- cally ridiculous , and even to claim Roman culture for all of Italy is wrong . For there existed in Italy before Rome , and outside the city of Rome and ...
... Hence to claim ' Roman ' descent for all Italians is biologically and histori- cally ridiculous , and even to claim Roman culture for all of Italy is wrong . For there existed in Italy before Rome , and outside the city of Rome and ...
Pagina 57
... Hence he was , as they all were , imbued with a reverence and love for Latin as the vessel in which all secular and spiritual wisdom was contained . Whoever wanted to quench his thirst had to drink from it and no other . When there ...
... Hence he was , as they all were , imbued with a reverence and love for Latin as the vessel in which all secular and spiritual wisdom was contained . Whoever wanted to quench his thirst had to drink from it and no other . When there ...
Pagina 246
... hence easily de- fended hills ( Aventine , Capitoline , Palatine ) , partly on mountain spurs ( Quirinal , Viminal , Esquiline , Caelius ) enclosing on three sides the low area of the Forum . The spurs are really continuations of the ...
... hence easily de- fended hills ( Aventine , Capitoline , Palatine ) , partly on mountain spurs ( Quirinal , Viminal , Esquiline , Caelius ) enclosing on three sides the low area of the Forum . The spurs are really continuations of the ...
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