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Birth No 82: Giuseppe Citera
Sanza: 6 November 1875, 9.20 am
Nicola Citera, 34, contadino, living Sanza, reported that at 6.40 am, on 5 of the current month (5 November 1875), in a house in Vico San Vincenzo, No 1, from Maria Lanzieri, his wife, contadina, living with him, was born a baby boy who he presented and named Giuseppe.
Witnesses: Francesco Cammardella, 61, Civile (landowner), and Francesco Fasano, 26, Civile, both living in the town of Sanza.
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 ...