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Azzopardi is a surname, very rare in Italy, Azzopardo, equally rare, it would seem Trieste, are characteristic of a Safardite Hebrew origin, the very few surveys do not indicate any original Italian stock, but probably are indicators of transfers, perhaps temporary, from the island of Malta. In Malta, however, there are no original elements, but there are documents that inform us of an arrival from Toledano in Spain. The Spanish Jewish families, with the edict of expulsion of the Jews of 1492, moved to Malta, then converted to Christianity and from there they are then, in very few cases, arrived in Italy. The etymological origin of this surname should be from the Greek word composed of σόω (race) and from πάρδος (panther) with the meaning originating from the privative alpha placed in front of a fighter against the Saracens (the panther race). We find traces of these surnames in the first half of the 1600s with Francisco Azopardo commissioned by the Holy Inquisition in Malta as an Arabic-language reader, as we can read in this document dated 22 September 1637: "... Ref.ente Em.o D Card. Albornotio l.tas R.mi Inquisitoris Melitensis de schola Arabica in ea Insula erigenda, and of D. Francisco Azopardo anthe Collegij de Prop. Fide Alumno Reader linguae Arabicae in ea deputando; Sac. Con. probans, censuit scholam p.tam them in from Insula erigendum, et Lectorem deputandum, ac constituendum esse praefatu D. Franciscum; ... ".
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