The origin of the Italian vulgar language in the Longobard Southern Italy

On 13^th April at 5 pm in Teano, symbol of the unification of Italy during the Risorgimento, the conference hall of the Loggione (Teanum Sidicinum Archaeological Museum, piazza Umberto I) will host the conference “The Placiti Cassinesi: Echoes of a tradition - The Teano documents of the judge of Byzantium". It is one of the first events by which the period when the first known dated documents written in Italian vulgar language is to be celebrated. Among them the first was written in Teano in 936 AD (namely in the final phase of the Longobard kingdom which lasted five hundred years in southern Italy), included in the “Placiti Cassinesi”. The prestigious initiative is promoted by the Municipality of Teano, in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT), the Accademia della Crusca, the Erchemperto Association, the Longobardia Association and the ATS “Principati e Terre dei Longobardi del Sud"  (Princedoms and Lands of the Longobards of the South”. Prof. Domenico Proietti, associate professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, and professor Carmen Autieri, medievalist archaeologist, will be invited as speakers. From 12^th to 25^th April the same Museum will host an exhibition of books on the “Placito of Teano”. Finally, on 25^th April at 11 am in piazza Vittoria a commemorative epigraph of the “Placito of Teano” will be unveiled and at 11:30 at the Hall of the Loggione the Honorary Citizenship will be conferred upon the illustrious professor, Mr Francesco Sabatini.