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    languages descended from Gallo-Romance: Gallo-Wallon, French, Franco-Provençal (Arpitan), Romansh, Ladin, Friulian, and Lombard. However, other definitions...
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    Provence (redirect from Provençal cuisine)
    to Provincia (the province), and as the language evolved from Latin to Provençal, so did the pronunciation and spelling. The coast of Provence has some...
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  • Occitan literature (referred to in older texts as Provençal literature) is a body of texts written in Occitan, mostly in the south of France. It was the...
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    regarded sex throughout the Greco-Roman world as governed by restraint and the art of managing sexual pleasure. Roman society was patriarchal (see paterfamilias)...
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    2023-09-22 Beert C. Verstraete and Vernon Provencal, introduction to Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition (Haworth...
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    recalls that of St. George, Ezra', Syria). Very different from these Provençal baptistries, except for the quatrefoil one of Venasque, that of St. Jean...
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    Italy (redirect from Roman New Republic)
    recognised: Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovene, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin, Occitan, and Sardinian. Four of these also enjoy co-official...
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    declared of age. At that time he spoke five languages, Greek, Arabic, Latin, Provençal and Sicilian. His first task was to reassert his power over Sicily and...
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    Malta (redirect from Maltese art)
    Italian influences as well as influences of English, Spanish, Maghrebin and Provençal cuisines. A number of regional variations can be noted as well as seasonal...
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    Tuscany (section Romans)
    type of poetry also began in Tuscany. Guittone d'Arezzo made art abandon chivalry and Provençal forms for national motives and Latin forms. He attempted political...
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