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Travaglia has a strain in North Milan and Varesotto, one with Cavedine in the lower Trentino and one perhaps not secondary to Leonforte (EN) and in the Messina, Travagli would seem of the area between Rovigoto and Ferrarese, Travaglini is diffused in all the Centronord, with maximum Concentration in Abruzzo, the Piceno and the Roman, Travaglino has a strain in the Alexandrian and one in Naples, Travaglio has a nucleus in Triggiano (BA) and one probably secondary in Turin, the strain Varese could derive from Valtravaglia (VA), the Other strains could derive, directly or through hypochoristic, from the medieval name Travalius of which we have an example in the diplomatic code of medieval Lombardy in a deed of sale made in Pavia of the year 1175: "... Year Belle Incarnacionis thousandth cent Septuagesimo Quintus, Die Dominico fourth tenth mensis Septembris, Indictione Octava. In Urbe Papia....... Mediacorda, Filius Quondam (...), here Professus est lege roman living, Vendidit Travalio de Oclabiano petiam unam de vitibus que est... ". Additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Travaglia is a surname from Messina that comes from the Sicilian ' travàgghia ' = equipment to hold the horse undocile while it is wounded. Rohlfs 187. For Caracausi II 1644 could also come from the Italian noun ' travaglio ' = harassment, wheeery, laboured work, from French ' travail ' from Latin * tripaliare = torment with Tripalium, torture tool formed of three poles. Travaglio is surname Lucano from the Calabrian voice Travagliu = ' work '. G. Rohlfs, Historical Dictionary of surnames in Lucania 1985.
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