From Latin to Italian Lanugage?

Question

Anybody know when did the Italians drop Latin language and start using Italian ?

Answer 1

According to History of the Italian Language: "The earliest surviving texts which can definitely be called Italian (as opposed to its predecessor Vulgar Latin) are legal formulae from the region of Benevento dating from 960-963."

In the Middle Ages, it developed into the language of Dante and Boccaccio with which more people are familiar.

Answer 2

1) Italian, as other Romance family languages, derives from Latin, i.e. Italian evolved from Latin, mistake by mistake.
Therefore there is not a straight and sudden change, but a slow evolution

2) some scholars think that since 4-5th c. AD (last age of Western Roman Empire) Latin was so changed that it could be classified as a language apart (not yet Italian or French or Spanish, but no more Latin). But there aren't any evidences until 9th c.

3) the earliest document of a romance language in Italy is a riddle engraved on a monastery walls in Verona. It is a sort of mix between Latin and Italian, but we can not know if it was a real spoken language or a creation by an educated monk.

4) the earliest documents in a fully italian language (somewhat different from today italian) are the "Placiti cassinesi" or "Placiti di Capua": phrases that had to spoken by witness in a judicial trial
(these phrases only werein Italian, but the other parts in trascripts were in Latin)

Answer 3

Well after the fall of the Roman Empire. It derived from the interchange between places Like Spain portugal and France