Conclusion
The telling signs we are looking for are then the suppression of Latin cases and genders, including the disappearance of the -t for the third person singular. We can sum up these changes as representing the passage from a synthetic (inflective) to a more analytic (prepositional and affixal) language. More research is indeed needed to validate either Schiapparelli's (pro-Italian) or Migliorini's (pro-Latin) approaches, but the Indovinello remains indisputably a major watershed in the history of the Italian language.
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