As a nation state, Italy has emerged only in 1871. Until then the country was politically divided into a large number of independant cities, provinces and islands. The currently available evidences point out to a dominant Etruscan, Greek and Roman cultural influence on today's Italians.
you find registers of births.
Each record has a side column stating when/where the child was baptized.
However, in about 1840, I read in side columns "il Parroco di Padula..." ("the Parson of Padula"), so I think there was only one church there recording baptisms.
Giuseppe "Pippo" Moccaldi
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