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Variations Last name: Ruffo
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
Very ancient and very noble family of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, of clear and ancestral virtue, which has spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. Mostly known as Ruffo but called Ruffa in many authoritative ancient chronicles, including "Historical memoirs of various noble families, as well as Neapolitans as Forastiere" by Blasius Altomare, "Description of the Kingdom of Naples" by Scipione Mazzella, "The nobility of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilie" by Erasmo Ricca and "The history of Roman families" by Theodoro Amayden, it has been known since the time of the Normans as sovereign in Calabria. Legend has it that it has Roman origins and that it descended from a branch of the Gens Cornelia, whose eponymous progenitor would have been Cornelius Rufus who, according to the Sibylline books, proposed the institution of the ludi apollinares. Simone da Lentini, bishop of Syracuse, wrote about it ...
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BlazonRuffa
Variations Last name: Ruffo
1. Coat of arms of family: Ruffo, Ruffa
Language of the text: Italiano
Spaccato, cuneato di argento e di nero.
Fonti bibliografiche: "Armorial Général par J.B.Rietstap - Deuxième èdition refondue et augmentée"; "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. Spreti"; "Nobiliario di Sicilia" di Antonio Mango di Casalgerardo (Palermo, A. Reber, 1912) custodito presso la biblioteca centrale della regione Sicilia.
Fasciato d'azzurro e d'argento, alla sbarra d'oro dentata di rosso.
Blasone della famiglia Ruffa o Ruffo in Liguria. Fonte bibliografica: "La università delle insegne ligustiche delineate da Gio. Andrea Musso" manoscritto cartaceo del XVII secolo (1680)custodito presso la Biblioteca Berio di Genova.
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