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"Maestro" Stefano Potestio, widower of Anna Lunetta (sp?) died on Apr 26th, 1817 at age about 77 and was buried in the Parish of San Giovanni Battista.
Do you know where this is from? Is it from Polizzi?
Giuseppe "Pippo" Moccaldi
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Yes, the church of San Giovanni Battista was in Polizzi but was demolished in 1892 for the construction of what is called the "Carrozzabile Collesano," a road for vehicular traffic. There was a pdf file, if you do a google search, but the link no longer works.
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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 ...