...it works for me in Vim 8.1.
You could try to do the download manually (see below).
Don't download the "suggestion" file, it is too huge.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c (curl ^"
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/it.latin1.spl^"; -o
^"D:\cache\temp\VIA517E.spl^")
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
Speed
100 1205k  100 1205k    0     0  1205k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--
941k
Hit any key to close this window...

All the best, Antonio
PS Contact me if you still have problems.

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:54 AM GianniGi <[email protected]> wrote:

> In vim 8.0 I've got the same problem of the year 2006
>
> http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Fwd-Missing-quot-it-ascii-spl-quot-td1156706.html
>
> When I try
> :set spell spelllang=it
>
> I get a message that asks me if I want to download the spell file. Then
> vim asks if I want to install it in ~/.vim/spell/ .
> the I get the following error
>
> Warning: Cannot find word list "it.latin1.spl" or "it.ascii.spl"
>
> Next time, but when I write:
> :set spell spelllang=it
> I get the following error:
> Warning: Cannot find word list "it.latin1.spl" or "it.ascii.spl"
>
> It seems that there are outdated links in
> http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/it/
> for example this
> http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries
> doesn't exist anymore
>
> This is the output
>
> Downloading IT.utf-8.spl...
> :!curl 'http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/IT.utf-8.spl' -o 
> '/tmp/vgc9Y6a/
> 1.spl'
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  
> Current
> "/tmp/vgc9Y6a/1.spl" 9L, 309C
> Could not find it, trying IT.ascii.spl...
> :!curl 'http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/IT.ascii.spl' -o 
> '/tmp/vgc9Y6a/
> 1.spl'
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  
> Current
> "/tmp/vgc9Y6a/1.spl" 9L, 309C
> Sorry, downloading failed
> Warning: Cannot find word list "IT.utf-8.spl" or "IT.ascii.spl"
>
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