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Balsamelli, almost unique, is from Palermo, Balsamello is very rare and specific to Palermo, Balsamo is widespread throughout southern Italy and Sicily, with a strain also in Piedmont and Liguria, Balsamini is very rare and typical of the Pesaro area, Balzamo has a stock in Naples and the Neapolitan and one in Manfredonia in the Foggia area, Balsimelli is typically Tuscan, from San Giovanni Valdarno and Montevarchi in the arertino and Florence, all derive directly or through various hypocoristic forms, also altered by the dialect, from the name Balsamus, a medieval augury, with the meaning of a panacea for the family, which had only achieved good things since its arrival. An example of this surname can be found, for example, in Solofra (AV) in the 1100s with the notary Balsamus, as we read in his deed: "... sui et illius heredibus viginti auri solidos constantinatos, and in suprascripta division semper firmiter remain. taliter tibi Balsamus clericus et notarius scribere precepi ... ". Famous person with this surname was the adventurer, alchemist and healer Giuseppe Balsamo (1743-1795) called Conte Cagliostro. ".
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