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Widespread throughout Italy has a strain in the Puglie, one in Campania, one in Lazio, one in Piedmont and one in Lombardy, but there are other less important in other regions, may derive from toponyms such as: Forty in the Asti, or similar, but may also descend from Nicknames associated with the number forty, proposable although unlikely the hypothesis of a derivation from a name attributed to the cult of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Armenia.

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


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