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Granites, very rare, has very small strains in the Piacenza area, in the Bolognese and Florentine, in the Roman area, in the Cosenza area, and in Sicily, Granite has a stock in Campania, especially in the Salerno and Neapolitan areas, one in Puglia and one in the Cosenza area, in Rome there is a secondary stock, they should derive from the medieval nickname, which later became the name, Granitus, of which we have an example in the Codex diplomaticus cavensis in a deed of the year 1047: "In nomine domini vicesimo ninth anno principatus domni nostra Guaimarii glorious Principis .. ..Unde in eo tinore for convenientiam guadiam dederunt ipsi prenominati Benedictus et Leo, et fideiussorem mihi posuerunt Iohannes filius quondam Iohannis, qui dictus est Granite, et for ipsam guadiam obligaberunt se ipsis Benedictus et Leo et illorum eredes ... ".
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