Typical Calabrian house, surname diffused in all the Cosentino and Crotonese, could derive either from geographical references or from nicknames originated from behavioral characteristics of the ancestor. Information provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Vulcano, soon became last name in Calabria, especially in the area of Cosenza and Catanzaro, but certainly came from Campania. The surname, of obvious significance, is currently present throughout Italy. Curious the history of the noun ' volcano ': In fact it is of Spanish origin because, during the discovery of central America, the Spaniards called ' Volcan ', that is, with the name of the island of the Aeolian Islands, named in this way since antiquity as the seat of the God Volcano, the first volcano they saw and then also the others, so that the noun became a common appellative by moving later to France and Italy.
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