In *Ad Infinitium: A Biography of Latin and the World it Created*, Nicholas Ostler claims that the Romance verb, while simplified from the verb in Latin, is still highly inflected compared to Germanic, Slavonic or 'let alone Iranian or Indo-Aryan'. www.amazon.com/Ad-Infinitum...

I might use this thread to link to book reviews that would release in the future. It would mostly be history books, maybe some linguistics or philosophy books, among other subjects.