Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- Note -- INTRODUCTION -- BOOK ONE MODERN ITALY -- Part One. Introduction to Italy -- CHAPTER I. The Land -- CHAPTER II. The Climate -- CHAPTER III. The People -- Part Two. The Italian Language -- CHAPTER V. The Dialects of Italy -- CHAPTER VI. The Italian Standard Language -- BOOK TWO PRE-ROMAN ITALY -- Part Three. Prehistoric Background -- CHAPTER VII. Language, Race, and Culture -- CHAPTER VIII. Prehistoric Europe -- CHAPTER IX. Italy in the Stone Ages -- CHAPTER X. Northern and Central Italy in the Metal Ages -- CHAPTER XI. Southern Italy in the Metal Ages -- CHAPTER XII. Linguistic Inferences and Conclusions -- Part Four. The Indo-Europeanization of Italy -- CHAPTER XIII. Indo-European and 'Indo-Europeans' -- CHAPTER XIV. The Linguistic Protohistory of Italy -- CHAPTER XV. The Etruscan Problem -- CHAPTER XVI. The Pre-Italic Dialects -- CHAPTER XVII. The Italic and Latinian Dialects -- CHAPTER XVIII. Conclusions -- BOOK THREE ROMAN ITALY -- Part Five. The Latinization of Italy -- CHAPTER XIX. The Proto-Latin Period -- CHAPTER XX. The Origins of Rome -- CHAPTER XXI. The Spread of Latin in Italy -- APPENDIX I: ROME'S CONQUEST OF ITALY -- APPENDIX II: THE COLONIES -- Part Six. The History of Latin -- CHAPTER XXII. Historic Background (200 B.C.-A.D.300) -- CHAPTER XXIII. Spoken and Written Latin -- CHAPTER XXIV. The Dialects of Spoken Latin -- CHAPTER XXV. The Literary Language -- BOOK FOUR MEDIAEVAL ITALY -- Part Seven. The Abortive Germanization of Italy -- CHAPTER XXVI. Historic Background, 300-80 -- CHAPTER XXVII. Germanic Dialects in Italy -- Part Eight. The Italianization of Italy -- CHAPTER XXVIII. Historic Background, 800-1250 -- CHAPTER XXIX. From Latin to Italian -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- NAME INDEX