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Biscardi has a Florentine lineage, one of the provinces of Naples, Caserta and Benevento, one in Bari and a main nucleus in Terranova da Sibari (CS), Biscardo and Viscardo are almost unique, Viscardi has a nucleus among the provinces of Milan, Lecco and Bergamo, one in Naples and one in the Taranto area, should all derive from modifications of the Germanic name Wiscard originating from the Germanic medieval terms wisi (wisdom, knowledge) and hard (strong, hard), with the meaning of strongly wise or very wise, name Latinized into Viscardus or Biscardus, thanks to a transformation of the V into B for the phenomenon of betacism, and name in use also among the Normans, especially in the altered form Guiscard, following the transformation of the Germanic phoneme w- into the f- gu-; of the name Viscardus we have an example in a Page privilege Milonis Mediolanensis archiepiscopi in Milan in 1193 where a witness so signs: "... Ego Viscardus presbiter subscripsi ....". We find traces of these surnames since the 1500s in Val Brembana (BG).
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