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Fossati is widespread in Piedmont, Liguria and especially in Lombardy, with a strain also in the Florentine area, the latter should derive from the toponym Fossato nel fiorentino, Fossato would appear to be Venetian, with a small strain in Campagna Lupia in the Venetian dialect and one in Vicenza and Monteforte d'Alpone in the Verona area, all the others derive from various names of places containing the root moat, very common in north-western Italy, as can be seen for example from the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy, where among other things it can be read: "... a mane fossatus, Gandulfinus ... a sera fossatus. Martinus penus ... etc."
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