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CALVANESE | CALVANESI | CALVANISE

Calvanese is specific to the Neapolitan and Salerno, Calvanesi and Calvanise should be due to a transcription error, should derive from the toponym Calvanico (SA). We find traces of this surname in Salerno in the 15th century with the city magistrate Angelo Calvanese of Salerno, in Striano (NA) in the second half of the 1700s with the parish priest don Gennaro Calvanese, in the same period at Castel San Giorgio (SA) the Calvanese they are among the most important of the city.

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


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