Pistore is from Padua, Pistori, very rare is from Verona, Pistorio, more widespread, is from Catania, Pistorello has a La Spezia and one from Veneto, Pistorelli, absolutely rare, certainly Venetian, is very rare due to transcription errors, Pistorino, very rare, is of the Messina area, they should derive from the medieval surname Pistoris, of which we have an example in the Diplomatic Code of Medieval Lombardy under the year 1156 in Vimercate (MI): "... sero Iohanis Sertoris, upstream Ismaelli; part of houses east Algisi Pistoris, meridie heredum Ambroxii Orrici ... "or even in 1213 in Lucca where in a writing we read:" ... Rugerius comiti Guidonis filius cognatus Marchionis predicti, comes Gerardus of Pian di Porto. Lanfrancus Lazari de Pistorio, Mussus de Pistorio and Guittoncinus Sighiboldi, et al. VI de nobilioribus dicti Pistorii ... ", the surname Pistoris, should derive from the Latin word pistor (he who crushes the grain in the mortar), an equivalent of the terminus and miller.
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