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Argenteri, very very rare, would seem to be from Voghera nel pavese, Argentero, typical Piedmontese, has a strain in Biella and is quite common in Turin, Argentieri and Argentiero are specific to the Brindisi area, with strains also in Abruzzo, the Piedmontese may derive from toponyms such as Argentera present both in the Cuneo area and in the Turin area, or even from the profession of argenterius (silversmith, craftsman of silver), like all the others, we find the traces of this use in 1500 in Siena with the doctor Iohannes Bartholi argenterius: ".. .et dictus Johannes Bartholi de Senis argenterius nomine dicti capituli in presentia mei notarii et testium infrascriptorum recognovit ... ". We find traces of this surname in the Cuneo area in the 1700s with the Marquis Niccolo Argentero.Berzesio di Bagnasco (CN).
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