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Minardi is typically Sicilian, from Bagheria (PA) and Palermo, Minardo is widespread in Italy, Minaudo is also Sicilian, especially from Trapani, Valderice, Trapani, Erice, Buseto Palizzolo, San Vito lo Capo and Paceco, should derive from later, even dialectal, modifications of the medieval name Menardus of which we have an example in this writing of the year 1188: "... domno Ulrico, tunc abbate de Valle-Lucenti, et prior ejus Radulpho, et domno Menardo, tunc abbate Pontiniaci, and prior ejus Willelmo cum suis, ut dictum est, firmo assensu in id ipsum concordantibus ... ". additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Minardi has at its base the name of Germanic origin and of Franconian tradition Maginhard (Mainardo) = "hard, fearsome for its strength".
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