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malandroaz wrote:OH wow! I just notice that you appear to be right. Lugi is only one that has Malandra the rest are MONTANARO. There must of been another Maria Malandra married to Silvestro MONTANARO.
Could they have mis-wrote this? Or something weird going on with Maria having two lovers?
LUIGI's mother was Maria ESPOSITO...not Malandra.
Women kept their maiden name...
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 ...