[ANSTHRLD] November 2001 ILoI comments
Andrea Hicks
maridonna at worldnet.att.net
Tue Dec 11 06:48:57 PST 2001
doug bell wrote:
>
> November 2001 ILoI
> Magnus von Lubeck
>
> 4) Lucia Ariosto (Bryn Gwlad)
> [Name] Lucia: De Felice, Nomi italieni, page 239 header Lucia gives it from
> the saint in Syracuse and Latin Lucius.
> Ariosto: De Felice, Nomi italieni, page 74 Ariosto lists this as a given
> name and in the cognomen Ludovico Ariosto author of Orlando Furioso. It
> mentions it derives from the original location of a feudal family Ariosto di
> Bologna. I can't be sure of the entire translation right now but suspect
> it can be used as a byname.
>
Dizionario Onomastico della Sicilia, by Girolamo Caracausi, 1994, vol.
I, page 74, s.n. Ariosto says that it is the surname of the famous poet
that goes back to the toponym Riosto near Bologna.
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