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Norman, Swabian and Angevin
dominations, have barely grazed the Latin
lexical patrimony, and in the Matera
territory the Greek-classical heritage is more
evident than the Byzantine (Talia, 1976, p.
146). Anna M. Compagna attests that the
passage from the use of Latin to the
vernacular is to be dated from the first
decades of the Fifteenth Century and, in fact,
it can be surmised that the “lack of an
intense communal life in the Kingdom
during the Fourteenth Century explains the
absence of local vernacular documentary
texts, found in such abundance elsewhere”
(Compagna, 1983, p.280). Raffaele Nigro has
documented a widespread usage, beginning
with the Seventeenth Century, of poetic and
political texts, but also religious and
scientific, written in vernacular (Nigro,
1981). In the Nineteenth Century it is the