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Mignogna has a nucleus in Taranto, a small stock in Lucera (FG), a stock in Naples, but the main core is in Molise between Campobasso and Riccia, Mignogni, absolutely rare, is due to errors in transcription of the previous one, Mignona is almost unique, Mignone has an Alexandrian lineage then spread both in the rest of Piedmont and in Liguria and a Campanian stock, Mignoni, very very rare, has a stock in the Cremona area and one in the northern Marche, Vignogna, extremely rare, is from Benevento, Vigogna is almost unique, they could derive from the toponymy, we remember the river Mignone between Viterbo and Roman province, but more probably derive from dialectal nicknames originated from the Italian word mignone (small, cute, pretty, favored also in an equivocal sense), a correlation with the ancient armor called mignone is definitely unlikely. We remember the patriot Nicola Mignogna born in Taranto in 1808 very active during the uprisings of 1848. additions provided by Fabio Paolucci Mignogna originates from the municipality of Riccia, a town in the Molise region bordering the Campania territory of Colle Sannita, which seems to derive from a very ancient dialect nickname from Ricca, which I have been investigating for some time. The surname has been attested since ancient times: an episode related to the abuses of the feudal class recalls in the chronicle the sacrifice of a young and beautiful Riccia girl of the surname Mignogna, who as soon as she got married wanted to steal from the Principe de Capua ius primae noctis. The young woman was imprisoned in the jails of the Riccia castle and tortured, until she preferred death rather than surrendering, giving her body to the obstinate and perfidious tyranny.
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