No. Italian is based on the Tuscan dialect with regard to most of its vocabulary, and all other of its features, including spelling, syntax, and grammar, except pronunciation, which is based on the Umbrian dialect. Since Italian was the last national Romance language to evolve from Vulgar Latin, it preserved certain features, including vocabulary, certain features of pronunciation, etc., that other Romance languages changed during their respective evolutions. Spanish, on the other hand developed early, but was somewhat isolated from the other Romance languages because of the Moorish invasions. Consequently, it also preserved certain features from Vulgar Latin, but for different reasons than Italian. The word for hut, casa, in VL, thus remained in both languages with no change in spelling, and only a slight difference in pronunciation between the two languages. The Latin root genti- provided gente in both languages, meaning people, but in Spanish the g has an h sound here, whereas the Italian has a soft g sound (Spanish language experts are split as to whether or not this was due to Basque influence.).
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