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Death of Luisa Fulvio, age 12, spinner residing in Vasto. Daughter of Antonio, a carpenter residing strada Santa Maria; and of Michelina Paluzzo, residing with her husband.
Death on 26 August 1854
Side note: This has nothing to do with the death of Luisa Fulvio. It is actually another death act that has been "squeezed" into the register on the same day for Luigi Artese di Costa.
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 ...