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This is the title page of the records I have been reading for the last three years. Can someone translate this page into English for me.
By pjbottino at 2012-04-09
Thanks
Paul
Libro dei defunti
della chiesa parrocchiale
della Beata Maria Vergine
Assunta in Cielo
del luogo di Forni a Ripari (???)
a iniziare dall'anno del Signore
1801
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 ...