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Both very rare, Recagni is specific to South Milanese, Reccagni of Lower Bresciana, Recagno is specifically Ligurian of Varazze (GE), Genoa and Savona, while Ricagno is typical of the Alexandrian of Sezzadio and Alexandria in particular with branches in Genoese, as well as Ricagni which is always of the Alexandrian, but of Alexandria and Castellazzo Bormida in particular, Riccagni and Riccagno are almost unique and are probably due to errors of transcription of the precedents, could all derive from modifications Of the medieval name of the XII th century Rechus, Recchus, or of the medieval name Ricandus of which we have an example in this writing of the year 868: "... Notitia in Quorum presented Qualiter Interpellavit ricandus Abbas et suum monachum (sic) Alfret Machtiern, Filium jostin propter monachiam sancti Salvatoris, quam injust for vim Tenebat almost sub censu.... ", as might in some cases derive from a form Ethnic of the country of Recco in Genoa, we find traces of these cognominizations at the beginning of 1700 in Carrarese with the notary Bernardo Recagno, in Recco holding the Capitanato in the second half of 1700 Captain Thomas Bernardo Recagni.
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