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On Jan 13 1822, Domenicantonio Basilisco, 37yo son of the deceased and Donato D'Amico reported that on Jan 12 died Andrea Basilisco aged 80, widower of Veneranda D'Ausilio, son of Donato Basilisco and Lucia ...... (no surname in the record) both deceased.
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 ...