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Masper is typical of the Bergamo area, Masperi, always Lombard, is more typical of Milan, but also has a small stock in the Ferrara area, Maspero is specific to the Milan area, Lecco area, as well as Maspes, Masperone, almost as Piedmontese, while Masperoni is also rare it would always seem Lombard, they should all derive, directly or through augmentative, from nicknames originated from the Latin term maspilus or mespilum (common medlar), modified both by the classic rotacism that replaces the r to l, as is common in the northern dialects, and by dialectal interventions of truncation and plural in -es as in Maspes, probably the nickname was linked to the great diffusion of Nepolous plants in medieval times, as the Milanese Bonvesin della Riva in 1288 says in De Magnalibus Urbis Mediolani: "..Mespila quidem quamplurima in mense novembrys apparent aleatoribus exutis invisa. (In November a large quantity of medlar appears) .. ", traces of these surnames the t we come to Brescia in the early 1500s, and to Como, in the second half of the 1600s, with Antonio Maspero, archpriest of the church of San Giorgio in Como. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Masperi: the base is the auspicious name and Christian devotion Hope, masculine and feminine, formed by 'hope', especially as a theological virtue, hope that is of salvation and bliss of the soul. Maspero is also an ancient northern dialectal term that indicates a campaign worker. Another hypothesis: MASPERO, MASPERI, NESPOLI, NESPOLA, MASPOLI, all derive from the name of the tree 'medlar' which in Latin is 'mespilus'. According to others (Lurati) MASPOLI is a Lombard and Piedmontese surname with the medieval voice 'malsperone' = bad spur, bad rider '.
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