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I read "San Nicolò da ??alia". I've done a quick search and in Palermo there are 3 churches dedicated to a San Nicolò:
San Nicolò da Tolentino
San Nicolò dei Greci
San Nicolò di Bari
None of them seems to be the correct one.
Some one who lives in Palermo or nearby may help better.
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 ...