Some people say that Italian is closer to Spanish than Portuguese, right?

Considering from several aspects, 1. Portuguese is developed from Andalusian. The purest Portuguese is in Lusitania, which is the Mandarin of Portuguese. Andalusian is somewhat similar to Moroccan in North Africa, so there are some Arabic and Moroccan "Berbers" voices in Portuguese. 2。 Spanish is transformed from Latin and has a strong Latin color. Italian is the ancestor of Latin, and the relationship among Italian, Spanish and French is equivalent to dialects, just like Shanghainese, Suzhou dialect, Wuxi dialect, Changzhou dialect and Jiangnan Hangzhou dialect are very similar in concept, while Portuguese is closer to Andalusian dialects, such as huelva and Seville in southern Spain, with similar grammar but slightly different pronunciation.

I study Italian, and I study Western European languages in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Genoa, Italy.