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Tezzele very rare is limited to the area of Trento and Bolzano, should be of German origin and derive from the surname Tetzel originating in Pirna in Saxony on the border with Poland, in Pirna we find traces of this cognominization already in the FIFTEENTH century with the monk Dominican Johannes Tetzel who was born in 1465 and who in 1509 became the Grand Inquisitor of Poland and died in Leipzig in 1519. Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Tezzele is a popular surname in Folgaria (where the town of Tezzeli is located), it is considered by Lorenzi a diminutive to the German (with the ending-ele) of the term Trentino ' Tezza ', derived from the Gallic ' (at) Tegia ', with which one Indicates the attic where the hay is placed or the old things are deposited. It is probable that the surname comes from the town of Tezze, in the commune of Grigno, in Valsugana. But it should be recalled that in Luserna there is also a fraction with this name. Lorenzi himself, however, also proposes another interpretation of this surname, considering it derived from the name of person Tassilo, or Tacilo, from the Gothic ' deds ' through the old German ' that ' = opera, action.
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