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PRATIFFI

Pratiffi is typical of Rimini, of Rimini and Sant'Agata Feltria in Pesaro, should derive from the toponym Pratiffi ancient country of which you have traces since 1130 under the name Petratifi, and that in documents of 1145 is identified as Petra Tiffila, the toponym In fact it should be connected with the ancient craft of baking pans and texts or cooking stones, especially suitable to bake the Piada Romagnolo, Marchigiana, the stone was extracted from Mount Tiffi from which the name; Today there is the commune of Rocca Pratiffi that was born from the merger of the town of Pratiffi with that of Rocca. Traces of this cognitive identification are already found in the TWELFTH century, in 1130 to the convention between Sarsina and Cavalcaconte the witness Peter is indicated as from Petratifi, and in the following century it is already spoken of a Pratiffi family.

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


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