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Prison is characteristic of the Alexandrian, Alexandria and Castellazzo Bormida, with a small stump in Genoa, prisons, very rare, is of the area Pavese, Alexandrian, Genoese, could derive from a nickname based on the fact that the ancestor were Been prisoners of an opposing party, or of the Saracens, but it is also possible that they may have taken the name from a locality, as, only by way of example, it may have been prison of the Fieschi, a fort in the province of La Spezia.

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


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