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Trotta is pan-Italian, very widespread especially in southern peninsular, Trotti, much rarer, has various strains in Lombardy, especially in the Varesotto, Milanese and Brescia, in the near Veronese, in the Ternano, in the Roman, in the Neapolitan and in the Barese, trotting, also rare , it has strains in Vicenza, in the Roman and frusinate, should derive from the medieval name Trottus, Trotta, we find in 1100 in Salerno a doctor called precisely Trotta, which seems to have been the first woman Doctor of the history, this name originates from the Germanic name Druht or by his altered Trutten, traces of these cognitive-ominizations are found in 1300 with the Piacenza Albertus Trottus, doctor in law and professor in Ferrara, in 1500, as we read in a plaque in the Bishopric of Alexandria: "Guarneris trottus Decimus Quartus Episcopus, vir Omni politicarum et christianorum virtutum absolutissimus verus patriae, Pauperum, Pupillorum, ac viduarum pater: creatus fuit MDLXXII Year ". Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Trotta is a surname very frequent throughout Italy and especially in the south. According to Fr. Minervini (Diz. Cogn. Pugliesi, 492) It is the cognitive name of the nickname ' Trotta ', Deverbal
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