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Typical Sicilian and from the Calabrian area of the strait, it should be of Spanish origin, but could also derive from the toponym Cannizzaro (CT). The Cannizzaro family appears in Sicily in the 11th century where it is invested with the castle of Terranova by King Pietro I of Aragon. Traces of this surname are found in 1600 in Catania, in a paper of the time it reads: "... Die l9 Augustu 1657 is bought du pezzu di lu tirrenu of the Jesuit patriots by crisciri the Clesia: the act was done in Catania for notarial deeds Marco Cannizzaro: lu preezzu of said land was of onze 1.10 ... ". Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826-1910) was a famous chemist from Palermo. additions provided by Stefano Ferrazzi The surname Cannizzaro, in reality, was born on the basis of a trade name, namely that of the manufacturer of mats: in the Sicilian dialect, the cannizzu is, in fact, the mat, so called because this fabric is generally made of canes (from the late Latin cannicius, which literally means cane). In this way, this surname should derive more than anything else from a trade name attributed to the progenitors of the Cannizzaro families, although we cannot however exclude the hypothesis of a toponymic origin for some of these families (from the homonymous toponym, in the province of Catania).
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