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SCABINI | SCAVINI

Scabini is specific to the area that mainly includes the Pavese, but also the surrounding areas of the Alexandrian, Genoese, Piacenza and Milanese, Voghera, Golferenzo, Santa Maria della versa, Pavia and Brallo di Pregola in the Pavese, and in Milan, Scavini, much rarer, It has a very small strain in the Verbanese and one in Vigevano in the Pavese, should derive directly or through betacismo from the Germanic term in use at Longobardi and Franchi Scabinus (municipal magistrate and administrators of Gabelles), activities Probably carried out by the founder, the use of this term we have an example in the year 865 in Brescia: "... Vassals Suprascripto Adelberti Marchioni Teudifrasciu Comes Ipsius civitatis; Rotari et Petrus Scavinis ipsius civitatis.. "Or even in the Modena".. Iohannes de Quondam We continued scavinus of Brento.. ", in Arezzo in 936:".. Lambertus Notarius et échevinal interfui.. ".

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


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