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December 20, 1830 Carminantonio di Spirito, age 31, shoemaker, domiciled in Luogosano, appeared at city hall in Luogosano and presented a baby boy. He declared that the boy was born of Vronica (sic) Pepe, age 20, his legitimate wife who lives with him. The child was born on December 20, 1830 in their home. The child was given the name of Angelo Raffaele.
Angelo Raffaele di Spirito was baptized in Luogosano on December 20, 1830.
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 ...