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Gozza is typical of the Bolognese area, with a stock in the Brescia area, Gozzi is in the area that includes Reggio, Modena and Mantua, Gozzini has a Lombard core, especially in the Brescia area, and a Tuscan in the area between Florence and Pisa, Gozzo is specific of the Veronese and of the band that from the rivigoto arrives to the province of Venice, they should derive from the Longobard name Gozus of which traces are had for example in 1011 to Quinzano of Senigallia (AN) in a document the Count Gozo is cited, lord of the castle of Quinzano , in a parchment of the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy of 1182 in Magnago (MI) reads: "... Interfuere ibi testes Serravallis, Obizo et Anrigazius fratres, Ozus de Prada et Gozus, Anricus Menna, Oto Romanonus.". additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Gozzo and Gozzi, according to Olivieri, derive from the ancient name Gozo and are apheretical by Arrigozzo and the like. Instead for F. Violi, surnames in Modena and in the Modena area, Gozzi is a surname of supernominal derivation, from gozzo.
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