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NORCINI | NORCINO

Norcini has a stock in the Varese area at Somma Lombardo and Vergiate, one between Florentine and Arezzo, in Bibbiena and Poppi in the Arezzo area, and in Florence and Prato, a small one in Teramo and one in Rome, Norcino, almost unique, appears to be from Campania. 'origin could be both from the toponym of Norcia in Perugia, and from the profession of norcino, a term used in ancient times to indicate both who produced cured meats after slaughtering pigs, and who did the surgeon empirically, since the 1400s the butchers who operated were famous patients with kidney stones incising their bladder.

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


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