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Quite rare, it seems to have an important strain in Milan and in Como and perhaps a minor in Trentino, it should derive from place names such as Prade (TN), Prada di Corte Palasio (LO), Prada di Bormio (SO) or Pradalunga (BG), at the root of which is the word Prado, Prada ( Prato), with this term in medieval times were identified many areas, even in Milan for example in a paper venditionis of the year 1196 read: "... Habere Videbatur in Ipsius loci territory: First Petia dicitur in Vallibus, et est pertice undecim minus pedes septem: Coheret ei a mane via, at Meridie Betege de Bioldis, at Sero Viganum, at Monte de Bioldis; Secunda Petia dicitur in Prada, et est pertice undecim et tabule octo minus pedes duo, Cesa de Subtus et al., and the Middle East, and the former part of Sero, and est to Mane via... ".
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