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Mellone is typically southern with a lineage between Neapolitan and Salerno, one between Tarentino, Brindisi and Lecce, and one in the Catania area at Militello in Val di Catania, Melloni is typically Emilian, especially from Ferrara and Bologna, with a strain also in the Florentine, should derive from the Latin nomen Mellonus of which we have an example in "Cneus Mellonus Vicanus frumentarius legionis VIII Augustae piae constantis Commodae", name brought for example by Mellonus the first archbishop of Rouen in France, on whose tombstone we read: "... Here if pro populis devovet hostiam // Mellonus tacita se nece conficit; // Mactatus celeri morte Nicasius // Christum sanguine praedicat. ", the southern stocks could also derive from the southern dialectal term mellone (melon, the fruit).
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