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Vitti would seem to be from Puglia, although there may also be a strain in frusinate, food is decidedly Apulian, Bari and Lecce, should derive from a variation of the Latin cognomen Vitus, is also proposed an unlikely theory That would result from the Latin word victi (vanquished). A possible secondary strain in Lombardy could be hypothesized, given the presence in 1600, in the city of Bergamo, of a writer named Ottavio Vitti. There seems to exist also a Trentino strain that may not be secondary, but connected to the Bergamasco strain. Integrations provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Vitti and Vitto are the name of the Apocopato Vittorio or from the nickname "Board" (< Lat. victum, derivative of ' Viv? King ') = food, given perhaps to a child who would become the support (food) of Family. Source: P. Minervini, Diz. Full. Pugliesi, 515.

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

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