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Can you make out this name?

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Can anyone read the name on this extract for me please?

Figlio di .........

I can't decipher the man's name. Can anyone help?

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7899 ... ame6yx.jpg

Thanks in advance.

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Michael,
This is only my guess. I'm sure someone else can do better.

Andra (=Andrea?) Dirous (looked & it is a surname, but not caming up on any of my Italian sites). Son of Marchis (Marchese?)

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I'll give it a shot too...

Figlio di Narciso (Dirocco)

:?: :?

Reason... the "M" in San Mauro leads me to believe that this is an N....

Handwriting Styles

http://www.comunesofitaly.org/Links/Handwriting.htm

Given Names

http://www.nomix.it/700no.php

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Thanks for the suggestions...it's definitely Andrea Dirocco but the figlio bit stumps me.

Narciso is not a bad guess....anyone else?
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I read Marchese, with an apparent diacritical stroke on the second E.
Narciso is not possible, there is an ascender in the middle of the word (minuscle H or L).

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