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Death Record No 9: Domenico Zambrotta
Sanza: 3 March 1876, 9 am
Nicola Cammardella, 30, landowner, and Gaetano Curcio, 64, tailor, both living Sanza, reported that at 9 pm, 1 March 1876, in a house in Santa Sofia, No 7, died Domenico Zambrotta, aged 3 months, born/residing Sanza, son of Sabino, contadino, and Caterina Citera, contadina, both living Sanza.
Witnesses:
Francesco Farano, 27, landowner, and Alessio Citera, 39, guardaboschi (woodranger/forester/woodman)
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 ...