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ERPILI | ERPILIO

Erpili, absolutely extremely rare, it would seem of the Bergamo, Erpilio, it would seem unique and seems to be of central Italy, they should both derive from the Roman name Erpilius, we remember with this name one of the three Roman generals condemned to death and that the legend wants to have been saved by St. Nicholas appeared in a dream to the emperor Constantine, forcing him to free them.

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


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