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Buffa has several stocks, in the Trapani and Palermo areas, in southern Sardinia, in the Catanzaro area, in the Roman area, in the Trentino area and in Piedmont, Buffi has a stock in Trentino in Tione di Trento in particular, one in Mantua in Gazoldo Degli Ippoliti above all, in Tuscany in Florence and in Umbria in Nocera Umbra, Buffini is typical of Prato, Prato and Poggio a Caiano, with presences also in Perugia, Buffino, almost unique, is probably due to a transcription error of the previous one, Buffo has various stocks, in the Turin area, in the Verona area and in the Treviso area, in the Genoese area, in Puglia in the Foggia area and in the Lecce area, they should derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the apheresis of the medieval name Rebufus or Robufus (see REBUFFI). additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli The root of the surname Buffa is historically the following: from the German Büffel, that is buffalo. The Büffel were Bavarian families who moved to Italy, still exist today in Bavaria with the same surname. In 1050 an Oddo Buffa was already distinguished as a warrior. The Buffas settled down and spread to the lower Lombardy and Piacenza areas. In the late Middle Ages we find the Buffa in the Pinerolo area and in Mondovì. Buffa is a fraction of Mondovì. It is possible that other Buffa families would descend from lower Lombardy and Piacenza to other Italian surnames Büffel in other ways: BUFALO (Messina), BUFALO or BUFALI (Velletri), BUFALINI (Città di Castello), BUFARELLI (Velletri) , BUFFERI (Genoa), BUFFI (Pesaro). Buffa is also present in Sicily and in the Neapolitan dialect, where, however, from the dialectal word 'buffa' = toad. Rohlfs 54
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