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CALVANI | CALVANO

Calvani is typical of the central belt that includes Tuscany, Marche, Umbria and Lazio, with a stock also in the Bari area, Calvano has stocks in Theatine, southern Lazio, Campania and northern Puglia and Cosenza, should derive from the medieval name Calvanus, but it is also possible to derive from the toponym Calvano in Benevento or from Monte Calvano in Tuscany, we find traces of this surname in Barletta in 1655 in a bill: "Don Fabrizio Capece Bozzuto pays ducats 50 to master Onofrio Calvano marmoraro in name and for part of Trojano Marulli, his son-in-law, in the account of ducats 170 for the whole price of white marbles and mixtures of good quality and condition sent to the chapel of the said Trojan and to the tumulus of the "quondam" Sebastiano Marullo, his father ... ", to Conversano (BA) in a deed dated 1659: "Information to the lawsuit of the canon Giovanni Antonio Franco against the canon Francesco Paolo de Paulo clerico Santo clerical brothers Sabino Calvano don Sante Attolino ... ".

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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