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Nasi is typical of Piedmont, Turin, Volpiano and Vigone in Turin and Mondovì, Vicoforte and Fossano in the Cuneo area, and Emilia in particular in the Reggio areas of Rolo, Reggio Emilia, Scandiano, Casalgrande and Correggio, Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo in the Modena area, and in Bologna, with a stock also in Rome, Nasilli is almost unique, Nasillo has a very small strain at Colletorto in the Campobasso area, Nasini is from central Italy, with small stocks in the eretino and Perugino, in the Ancona and Macerata areas. With respect to Ascoli, in the Grosseto area and in the Roman area, Nasino is almost unique, Nasone has a lineage in Scilla in the Reggio area and one perhaps secondary in Naples, Naso is typical of Rizziconi in the Reggio area and Drapia in the Vibonese area in Calabria and Sicily with significant presence in Erice and Trapani, in Sant`Agata di Militello in the Messina area, in Ramacca in the Catania area and in Riesi in the province of Nyssa, there is also perhaps a secondary lineage in Turin and Collegno and one probably indigenous to Garessio in the Cuneo area and Genoa, which together with Nasoni, who has stocks in the Pesaro area in Mondavio, Fano and Mondolfo, and in Genzano di Roma, Rome and Ariccia in the Roman period, could derive, directly or through hypocoristic forms, even dialectal, from the Latin cognomen Naso, Nasonis, we remember the famous poet Publius Ovidius Naso , the southern stocks could derive from the toponym Naso (ME), but it is also possible a derivation from the Greek word nesos (island) to indicate an insular origin, traces of this surname can be found for example in the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy under the year 1188 in an act of Iuramenta fidelitatis hominum Paxilliani, Montis, Casalis et aliorum locorum: "... Interfuerunt testes Ardericus Nasus, Benno Curtus, Montenarius Iudex, Rogerius Rigizonus, Otto Plattus et Ariprandus Bonafides et quamplures ali de civitate Mediolani .... ".

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