I don't mind palatalization at all. I'd like to hear Latin with Italian
pronunciation/accent anyway.
Wow... I didn't know about that.
I don't think that destroying Latin outside Italy would help Latin to be preserved in Italy at all.
Why not just make the Italian Latin language somehow more conservative?
The break-up of Vulgar Latin into the Romance languages was most probably a consequence of the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
However, the role of the Germanic tribes is overestimated in the fall of the Roman Empire.
Rome was
invaded and sacked by Gauls in 376 BC.
Rome was invaded by Carthagians during the
Second Punic War.
There was the
Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD.
Most historians agree that even without the Germanic invasions, Rome would have collapsed on it's own: religious unrest, civil wars, plagues, changing climate causing agricultural failures ultimately causing food shortages, population decline, corruption, poor taxation system, decline of slavery, etc.
Rome actually collapsed on it's own.
The Germanic tribes just proved that Rome failed.
However, the Romans could have kept Italy, if they were somewhat smarter.
Then we could have saw Latin remaining as the language of Italian, instead of evolving into modern-day OTL Italian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFz9FP5tDY