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PeterTimber wrote:...I am curious if the dictionary will contain those Italian names that are local in Origin stemming from nicknames,occupations etc in small towns or areas of Italy which normally are not included in the current issue of my resource surname dictionary by Emidio De Felice...
The encyclopaedic work of Enzo Caffarelli concerns about 60.000 italian surnames, but it represents only 1/5 of the existing italian last names and it can't contain all that local forms of surnames that are not spread in all the Peninsula so, in most of the cases, you will not find them!
( http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio ... io/2069128 ) Il patrimonio dei cognomi italiani è stimato intorno ai 330.000, una straordinaria ricchezza di forme che non ha confronti altrove in Europa e che in parte si deve alla variazione linguistica dell’Italia con le sue tante tradizioni locali riflesse anche nelle forme cognominali. In una prospettiva storica, il cognome è formazione relativamente recente, risultato della fissazione, accanto a un unico nome, di un elemento aggiunto che ha la funzione di designare il casato. Ciò avviene quasi sempre dopo il Concilio di Trento (1545-63), quando i parroci cominciano a tenere libri di nascita, morte eccetera...
Dear Luca Thank you very much for resolving my curiousity. I don't think the new extended 60,000 italian surname editon of Italian surnames will differ too much from Caffarelli's work on surnames but without some perspective it would be speculation on my part and useless as a finding of a source. At the moment it is a good indication of what the new dictionary will be like. Much obliged to you. =Peter=
pink67 wrote:The Book I was referring to, is this (it's a 4 books work: 2 books for the first names and two books for the lastnames Total 3.200 pages):
But it's very expensive too...
The version is only in Italian...
I have traced my paternal grandfather's family tree in Italy as far back as the 1700's. The cognome is currently present in 358 comuni throughout Italy from the northern-most reaches to the southern-most tip of Sicily and has over 1,000 hits in the present-day Italian telephone directory.
The cognome is not present in the surname dictionary compiled by Emidio De Felice; I hope to have the opportunity someday to see if it is listed in this newer dictionary.
One of the most fun things that I discovered in my research was finding my look alike ancestor, Prince Marino Caracciolo II. Don Marino descends from the Caracciolo Rossi family, one of the oldest families in Naples, that date back to 950 AD. He was born in Atripalda on 9-6-1587 and died in Naples o...
