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Marzocca is typical of the Bari area, Marzocchetti, very rare, it seems specific to the area of San Salvo in the Chieti area, Marzocchi seems to be specific to the area that includes the Bolognese and the Ferrara area, with possible strains perhaps not secondary in the Grosseto area and in Naples and Foggia, where the rarest Marzocco is also present, Marzocchini has a lineage in the Modena area, one in the Florentine and one in Osimo in the Ancona area, Marzochini, practically unique, is probably due to a transcription error of the previous one, very rare Marzucchi is specific to the Sienese, Marzucco is even rarer than Foggia, they should all derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the medieval name Marzucchus, of which we have traces for example in Pisa, where it was particularly widespread, in the XIIth century, in the Annales Pisani, year 1172 reads: "... Alia vice, Octubris, miserunt legatos Gerardum Bulgarelli Consulem, et Marzuccum, Henricum Frederici, et Opithonem iudicem emperors Frederick ...". additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Marzocco could derive from the noun 'marzocco' = 'sign of the lion, carved or painted, of Florence; the marzocco of marble on the railing of Palazzo Vecchio was crowned in the festivals of the city. additions provided by Luca Porru In Sardinia the surname Marzucco originates from Villanova d'Albenga in the Savona area, from where, in the second half of the 17th century, the brothers Bernardino, Marco and Giuseppe Marzucco, merchants, arrived in Cagliari for the spice trade and mercantile drugs. The descent on the island is ascertained by Giuseppe, who died in 1717, from which the various branches of the family originated, who distinguished themselves in the feudal administration, in the legal profession and in commerce.
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