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Pretto is definitely Veneto, widespread in all three Venezie, but particularly in Verona, Vicenza mainly and Padua, the maximum concentration is located in Cornedo Vicentino, Valdagno and Vicenza, could derive from a name of locality now disappeared, An ancient trace of this cognominization is found in a notarial deed of the year 1583 in Roana (VI): "1583, Indictione XI, die lune Primo mensis Augusti, in Villa Roane, Vincentini districtus, in Curtivo ser Alovixii quondam ser Thome Fabri, Presentibus Andrea Filio ser Stephani Bais de Axliago et Bartholameo quondam Antonii de Pretto de Recoaro testibus... ".
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