A capsule-history of study of "Vulgar Latin" can, now, be had from Versteegh.
Being a somewhat ultramontane Catholic myself I tend toward Dante Alighieri generally; although I must warn that our man held some biases. Dante believed that his Florentine dialect deserved the same status as Latin, this Italian being the Latin which Christian Florentines spoke during the last years of the Principate.
On topic Martin Haspelmath and Bernd Kortmann deserve also to be noted in the biblio, I think; Wiki is directing me also to van der Auwera (pdf).
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