Out Italian Surnames Genealogy Book

Description

Our Italian Surnames
Joseph G Fucilla
Hardbound  volume totaling
299
pages.  Book is in excellent condition. Per the publisher;
Our Italian Surnames
covers every fact of Italian names and naming practices. It is here we discover, for example, that
Bussolari
is Italian for
compass
,
Orsini
means
bear
, and
Passalacqua
stands for
butterfly
. Besides given names and the evolution of Italian surnames, the book contains chapters devoted to pet names, botanical names, geographical names, bird names, insect names, occupational names, and more. Written for a popular audience, each chapter of the book is a separate and informative unit in itself. Complete with a list of sources and an index of more than 7,500 names,
Our Italian Surnames
is a monument to the late Professor Fucilla’s lifelong interest in the language and names of
Italia
.
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