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this marriage record mentions Nicola Purcaro and the date 4 Jan 1816. Is this Nicola's date of death? I cannot locate the act in the 1816 death records so I am wondering if I misunderstand that the date signifies.
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 ...