Edit to Add: I've checked Family Search and it doesn't look like records, prior to 1908, were filmed, although it seems likely there will be more included with the Montecorvino Pugliano records as per the Birth Record for Maria Letizia Romano: https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum/ ... 82#p281382
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...