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Pisco, very rare, is Neapolitan, Piscopo is also typical of the Neapolitan, but with stocks also in the Bari area and in Sicily, Piscopello and Piscopiello are Apulian, of the Salento peninsula in particular, all derive from nicknames originated from the Greek term episkopos (bishop , superintendent) charge not necessarily religious reserved for those who had responsibilities of command in the community. We find traces of this surname in an indult letter from Roberto D'Angiò dated 12/06/1340: "... Principalis clemencia dum censure iuris per lenitatis intuytum se amabiliter obicità rigorem iusticie cum moderamine librate provisionis emollit nec solum leves excessus abolet sed interdum graves culpas mitigat et in facinoribus manifestis lenitive dispensat ... ... Guillelmus de Majnardo, Petrus Piscopus, Nicolaus Piscopus, Guillelmus de Bonofilio ... ". additions provided by Giovanni Grimaldi Piscopo is a very common surname in Campania, but also widespread in Puglia, Sicily and Lazio, as also present in northern Italy. This surname derives from the apheresis of the term Episcopo which in Greek designated an inspector and which in ecclesiastical terminology was referred to the Bishop of a diocese. In this regard we can therefore suppose that they descended from a Bishop (since some of them in the dark ages of the high Middle Ages had children) or that they came from an area that was the seat of a Bishopric (Episcopium). The surname appears however in various acts already in the XII-XIII centuries in Puglia and in Campania. We can however note that in the 12th century there existed in Capua (episcopal see) a De Episcopo family and in the XIII century. there existed in Aversa (another episcopal see) the noble family De Episcopo and De Archiepiscopo, while we have news in Naples in the XIII century. of another Piscopo family (in Piazza S. Maria Maggiore), to which Pandolfello Piscopo Alopo (+1416), Grand Camerlengo of Giovanna II probably belonged. But a Piscopo family was attested since the thirteenth century. also in Arzano (Na), where Piscopo is still the most common surname.
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