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Galvan is typical of Veneto and Trentino, with maximum concentration in the Vicenza area, Galvani is widespread in Lombardy, Emilia and Romagna, Verona and Pesaro, Galvanin, very rare, is from Vicenza, Galvanini also very rare is specific to the Verona area and towns north-west of the city, Galvano is decidedly Sicilian, they derive from the Italian medieval name Galvanus of which we have examples in the Catania area in Castiglione di Sicilia in 1200, in a text of 1297 we read: "... observando abinde que in actis supradicte magne regie Curie continetur et pro idem iudex Galvanus non paruit predicte sentencie nec adimplevit alia contentina in actis eisdem ... ", in Vicenza where the bell of the church of San Vincenzo bears written:" Magister Galvanus de Vincencia me fecit MCCCCXVII "and in Milan with the Dominican friar and illustrious historian. Galvanus Flammae
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