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Gigliola is specific to Brindisi, Ceglie Messapica, Brindisi and San Michele Salentino, Giglioli has a stock in Emilia between Modena and Reggio Emilia and one in Tuscany, between Florence and Livorno, Gigliotti is present as a leopard in Italy, with particular concentration in Calabria in the Cosenza and Catanzaro areas where it is particularly concentrated in Lamezia Terme, Gillioli is practically unique and is probably due to a transcription error by Gilioli which is instead typical of the Modena, Reggio, Mantua and Verona areas, Giliotta, absolutely rare, would seem of the Sicilian Calabrian area, Giliotti would appear to be from Piacenza on the border with the Carrarese and Genoese, in some cases they may derive from toponyms such as Giglio Isola (GR) or more frequently from hypocoristic names of the medieval name and Gilius of which we have an example in Milan in an act of 1132: "... item iugalibus, unde odie cartam vendicionis fecerunt de alia medietate ipsius vinee cum are a eius in manus et potestatem Anselmi qui dicitur Gilius, de suprascripta civitate ..: ", traces of the use of the hypocoristic we also find in Faenza in 1275:" ... Postmodum arengavit dominus Giliottus iudex de Favencia pro Favencie communes. Demum dominus Maghinardus de Sosenana potestas Faventie, nominations et vice comunis Faventie, iuravit fidelitatem predicto domino cancellerio ... ".
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