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Manganaro is very widespread especially in Sicily, in Nissen, Catania, Syracuse and in particular in the Messina and neighboring regions of Reggio, it has a stock also in the Roman, the Caserta and the Neapolitan and in the Lecce area, it should derive from the profession of baton worker or, in archaic Sicilian dialect, manganeddu (wheel-shaped tool on whose circumference the silk yarn was wrapped, in different quantities according to the use for which it was intended), or silk spinner, the use of this surname we find in Palermo since first decade of 1300, a certain Filippo Manganaro on March 28, 1310 was appointed to the office of secret Master and Master procurator of all Sicily and appeared as Judge of the Magna Regia Curia of Palermo from 1313 to 1319. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Manganaro it is a Sicilian and Calabrian surname. Reproduces the Greek surname Manganáris and the Sicilian 'manganaru' = who draws silk from cocoons with 'mànganu', a special tool. Rohlfs 120.
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