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The left side is the "promise to celebrate the marriage in the Church" done in the town hall on the 11th of November, 1853. The banns were posted on the 23rd of October 1853.
In the right side, the Parsih notifies the Comune that the marriage was celebrated in the Parish of S. Erasmo on the 11th of November.
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Does anyone have a guess as to what the letter "P" or "B" before Maria is for? I don't believe I have seen it before.
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 ...