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Maranto is specific to Cefalù, it could derive from a dialectal alteration of the medieval term of Spanish origin Marano or marrano, which means pig, renegade and was attributed to the Saracen slaves freed from slavery, to support this thesis there would be this nineteenth-century Belgian text on history of commerce and shipping, referring to the early years of the 1400s: "... La ville de Louvain, animée par présence d'une nombreuse population ouvrière, possédait alors, selon le témoignage de tous les auteurs, plus de quatre thousand metiers a tisser le drap D'immenses fortunes s'y étaient accumulées, ainsi qu'on peut en juger par le fait suivant, relatif à un de ses citoyens A marchand, Gauthier van Heremade, ayant été forcé de se rendre en Angleterre pour y conclure certaine opération commerciale, fut attaqué en mer par pirate, nommé Marantus, et fait prisonnier Sa rancon, taxée à 4,000 écus d'or, valeur considérable pour l'époque, fut acqui ttée sans difficulté ... ", but much more probably derives instead from an Italianized contracted form of the medieval name Marantus (see MARANTA), even if one cannot discard the hypothesis that derives from a place name, as it could be deduced from an act of 4 April 1336, then two centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards in Sicily, which would lead to the exclusion of the first hypothesis, where we read that, during the reign of Frederick II and Peter II, the Monastery of Santa Maria di Licodia , of S. Leone and San Marco di Paternò, is preferred in the sale of a shop located in Paternò district of the Borgo or Santa Maria Maddalena, which had already been given in emphyteusis to Pietro de Lancesa, who had sold it to a certain Giovanni de Maranto without the consent of the Monastery; this for the price of two onze and tarì 15 in gold. The deed is written by the Notary Filippo de Geremia in Paternò.
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