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Zonza, very very rare, is specific to Cagliari and Cagliari. additions provided by Giuseppe Concas ZONZA: may derive from c (i) onc (i) a in the meaning of hangover (from Italian cioncare = to drink greedily). Cioncia in Campidanese, tzontza or tsontsa in Logudorese. Or it derives from tanning, conciai = to tan, to style, to adjust. Sa concia is the establishment where leather is tanned: in Italian, tanning or tannery. Among the signatories of the Eleonora Peace of 1388 there are: Concia Cagoci, ville Curchuris (* today's Curcuris: Partis de Montibus); Tanners Leonardo - de Castri Januensis (Castelsardo). In medieval history we have Zonza Leonardo, from Sassari, who lived between the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1429 he was ambassador to Alfonso II of Aragon, called the Magnanimous, to offer him arms and money, on the occasion of the wars of Italy and Catalonia; in return he obtained many privileges, for himself and for the city of Sassari. Still in Sassari we have Zonza Francesco (XVIIth - XVIIIth century); in 1710 he was appointed baron of Capoterra: a title that will have no value, when the Kingdom of
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