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It seems to have two stocks in Puglia between Bari and Foggia and in Campania between Neapolitan and Salerno, a very ancient nucleus would have been in Lucca, the Lucca family should be originally from Saxony from where it would have come in the 11th century. The surname should derive from the late Latin term mansus (from the Latin verb maneo rimango) so it was called a farm occupied by a single family, that of the massanus (from which also derives the term housewife) with the obligation to provide free working days in the 'pars dominica' ie in the property of the Lord.
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