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Mitta is typically Lombard, from the provinces of Sondrio, Torre Santa Maria, Sondrio and Chiavenna, and Mariano Comense in the Como area, Mitti, absolutely rare, is in the area between southern Lombardy and Piedmont, Mittini, extremely rare, is from Novara, Mittino is characteristic of Trecate in the Novara area and of Novara, they should all derive, directly or through further hypocorisms, from apheretic aphoretic forms of names such as Bartolomea / eo, Gerolomo / ma or other similar ones, but we must also consider that the term mitta in late epoch renaissance was equivalent to half, as we can read for example in the book by Niccolò Tartaglia Quesiti et inventioni diverse of 1545: "..inchiodar ui dui trauersi longhi how much that is the mitta of the culatta of the piece uel approximately (and more than less than nant) & far one on the other about a brazzo, .. ", and that these surnames could also derive from a nickname with this meaning, moreover a hypothesis not to be overlooked is that it derives from a indication of locality, in the Renaissance period in the communities, which had suffered strongly Germanic influences, the city center was called Mitta, from the German Mitte. We find traces of these surnames in an act of 1720 in Valmadre di Fusine in the Sondri area: ".. Giovanni Battista Baracco de Grumello was Bernardo, mayor of the church of S. Matteo, together with the deputy director of the said church Giovanni Mitta, he assigned to the community of Fusine the right to demand from the lords Salici di Soglio, co-owners of the iron mine, 155 imperial liras, value of the aforementioned wood, due to debts for sizes ... ".
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