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From the first image all I can decipher is the following:
I, father Don Giovanni Battista (surname ?), parish priest, have baptized a young girl born yesterday(can't make out what follows this) in Monte to Giuseppe Sanfilippo and Antonina (can't make out her surname), married, of Monte. Godmother was Carmela Collura, daughter of Salvatore of Carini.
Sorry, but even though the second image is cleaner, I still can't make out anything else in the document. Maybe someone else will do better. I see some letters in the mother's surname, but these are not helping me to figure out what it is.
A di detto (it needs to check the previous act for the date: August 10th 1861)
Io sacerdote Don Giovanni Battista Capradoli(??) parroco ho
battezzato una fanciulla nata ieri sera qui in
Monte da Giuseppe Sanfilippo ed Antonina
Lo Savio jugali di Monte; le fu imposto nome
Antonia. La padrina fu Carmela Collura figlia di
Salvatore di Carini.
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...