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September 22, 1860 before the mayor of Vasto appeared Donato di Fulvio, father of the deceased, age 38, profession farmer of San Vito, domiciled in Contrada Sant’Onofrio, and Pasquale Paolino, age 33, farmer, domiciled in Contrada Colli, who declared that on the above date at 1 PM Sabbia di Fulvio died, age 1, domiciled in Contrada Sant’Onofrio, daughter of Donato di Fulvio, the first declarant, and of Liberata Olivieri domiciled with her husband in the same place.
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 ...