Botta is widespread in the central-western area of northern Italy, but there are also important stocks in Campania, Puglia and Sicily, Botti is widespread in Lombardy, Liguria, Emilia and upper Tuscany, with stocks also in Lazio and Campania, Botto is specific to Piedmont and Liguria, should derive from the medieval name Bottus of which for example there are traces in the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy, where, in a deed of 1169 it reads: "... Albertum qui dicitur de Rivolta et Bottum qui dicitur Salinarius de Meleniano, named de Meleniano bridge supra flumen built Lambri et de omnibus rebus territoriis et buschis ... ". Traces of this surname can be found, for example, in Ardesio (BG) in 1500 with the notary Agostino Botto of Giovan Antonio di Ardesio and in Milan in 1502 with Bergonzio Bottus one of the leaders of the revenue of the state of Milan. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Botti is a Venetian surname which according to Olivieri 158 derives from the Germanic personal 'Boto, Botgis'. (Förstemann 323). For F. Violi, on the other hand, it is the surname of the medieval personal name Bottus that originates from the mediolatino 'buttis' = barrel, used as a nickname to indicate 'squat and stout person'.
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