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Does anyone now where I can find a standard form letter to use to write to "city hall" in Italy requesting information on my Grandparents. I would prefer to have an English translation and/or both.
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 ...