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Last name
Gorgonho

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Language of the text: Italiano

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Si ritiene che la famiglia Gorgonho presente in Brasile sia in realtà un ramo della italiana e nobile famiglia Gorgonio. La diversa cognominizzazione sarebbe, infatti, dovuta ad un errore di trascrizione anagrafica. Pertanto tale cognominizzazione dovrebbe derivare dal nome greco "Gorgones", le Gorgoni erano dei mostri mitologici alati, la più famosa era Medusa, o dal nome romano derivato "Gorgonius", di cui abbiamo un esempio nel Rerum gestarum di Ammiano Marcellino: "...Perductus est isdem diebus et Gorgonius, cui erat thalami Caesariani cura commissa, cumque eum ausorum fuisse participem concitoremque interdum ex confesso pateret...", ma è pure possibile una derivazione dal nome femminile latino "Gorgonia" di cui abbiamo un esempio in questa antica lapide: "D(is) M(anibus) / Aur(elio) Proculo puero an(norum) XIII filio / dulcissimo / p(ia) f(ecit) / Gorgonia / Alumna et". La famiglia Gorgonio risulta tra le primarie di Gallipoli, nelle Puglie, sin dal secolo decimo terzo. D’altronde, tal famiglia,

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