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Dated 10 May 1877 at the town office
Appearing before the official was Savino Morena, 46, farmer residing in Tegiano, to declare that at 7:20 AM on the 9th of the current month at the house at piazza dei Mori #5, to Maddalena Sorge(?), his wife, farmer, residing with him, was born a male child who was presented to the official and to whom was given the ame DOMENICO.
Witnesses to the record: Filippo De Franciscis, 35, landowner; and Cono Cerverizzo(?), 21, landowner.
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 ...