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Mancin is typical of the north, with a large stock between Rovigoto and Veneziano and its derivatives between Roman and Latin, it is very widespread in northern Piedmont, in western Lombardy and in Emilia, Mancina is typically Calabrian of San Giovanni in Fiore in the Cosenza area in particular and of Cosenza, Mancinelli is very widespread in the south-central zone that includes the Rimini area, the Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campobasso, Benevento and Neapolitan, with a stock also in the area of Potenza, Mancini, widespread throughout Peninsular Italy, with maximum concentration in the central belt, Campania and Puglia, Mancino is widespread in Rome and throughout the south and in Sicily, particularly in the Palermo area, should derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the Latin cognomen Mancinus, Tito Livio in Ab Urbe Condita in his Periochae mentions the consul Hostilius Mancinus: "... C. Hostilio Mancino so sacrificing pulli ex cauea euolauerunt; conscendants deinde in na uem, ut in Hispaniam proficisceretur, accidit uox: "Mane, Mancine". Quae auspicia tristia fuisse euentu probatum est. Victus enim a Numantinis et castris exutus, cum spes nulla seruandi exercitus esset, pacem cum his fecit ignominiosam, quam ratam esse senatus uetuit. XXXX milia Romanorum ab IIII milibus Numantinorum uicta erant. ... ", but it is also possible to derive from a nickname motivated by the characteristic of the founder of being left-handed, but we cannot also exclude a possible derivation from one of the many toponyms Mancini or Mancino present here and there for Italy additions provided by Federico La Longa Mancini The Mancini, counts, nobles of the marquises of Fusignano, Roman nobles, sink their millenary roots in the Italian soil and boast descent from the
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