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Groom: Biagio Pampalone, never before married son of dec Salvatore (Pampalone) and Pietra di Falco, who had been spouses in this town and parish of S. Julian (when Sal was alive)
Bride: Margarita di Costa, never before married, daughter of Diego (di Costa) and Antonia Truglio, spouses of this town and mother church (S.Silvestre Papa)
Witnesses: Vincenzo Bonventri (Bonventre) and Girolamo Aguanno.
Banns were on Jan 20, 27, and the third possibly on Jan 29th.
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 ...