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It seems specific of Western Sicily, in particular of the Trapani area, with a lineage in Liguria that should derive from the toponym Casano (SP), derives from an archaic form of the name Cassanus, of which we have traces in the Genoese as we read in a letter of 1337 : "... Petrus et cetera. Nobilibus et dilectis ac fidelibus nostris Casano et Galeoto de Auria necnon eorum officialibus in Sardinea ..."; a trace of this surname is with Cardinal Nicolas Casanus (1401-1464).
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