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CALVELLI | CALVELLO

Calvelli, quite rare, has a Florentine core, which could derive from the name of Monte Calvello or of the Calvello locality in Val di Fiora, one in the Cosenza area and one in Puglia that should derive from the village of Montecalvello in the Foggia area, Calvello, quite rare, it is typical of the Basilicata region of which it should originate, it should derive, like the Calabrian stock of the previous one, from the toponym Calvello in the Potentino. Since 1300 there are traces of the De Calvello family, a Sicilian feudal lord Giovanni De Calvello is mentioned, to whom the emperor entrusted lands in the area of Caltanissetta.

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


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