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On October 6, 1862 at 5 p.m. Serafina Monteferrante, age 60, weaver, domiciled on Saint Mary Street, died in Vasto, daughter of Sante Monteferrante, deceased, laborer, domiciled and died in Vasto, and of Lucia Pellicciotta, weaver, domiciled and died in Vasto. The deceased was the wife of Giovanni Bottari, who is living.
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 ...