Originally from Sicily, province of Agrigento, it could derive from a diminutive of the Latin cognomen Laureola. Family from Catalonia (Spain) with the Mango of Casalgerardo (PA), and related to Ruggiero di Lauria (PZ). Notable characters of this lineage are: Baldassarre, landscape painter with his sons Filippo and Francesco, in the Flemish manner, Vincenzo Cardinale and writer, Gregorio, Bishop of Ripatransone, Antonio, nobleman who in 1710 raised the family crest, from S.Cataldo ( CL) moved to Villalba (PA), Giuseppe, scientist and lecturer (AG), obtained the professorship of mathematics and infinthematics, at the University of Catania, Giuseppe, priest and writer (AG), Salvatore, several times a deputy regional president of the Sicilian regional assembly, undersecretary of the treasury, Carlo, painter of European renown and professor at the academy of fine arts (PA). Ferdinando Lauricella proposes a different hypothesis for the origin of the surname, it should derive from the fusion of the surnames Lauri and Cella, he found traces of a family of Patricians from Lauri-Cella in 1600 (as shown in the Italian Official List - ITALIAN HERALDIC COUNCIL ) and adds that he has found in the Heraldic Archive of the Noble Family news about the noble Lauri family, nobles of Marche and Patrician origins from Lazio, and to the Cella family nobles of Lombard and Emilia Romagna origins. additions provided by Enzo Lauricella
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