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Baretti is typical of the Bergamo area, Baretto is from Alessandria and Genoa, Baro is typically Venetian, from Padua, Pianiga and Spinea in the Venetian and Maserada sul Piave and Ormelle in the Treviso area, Barolini, almost disappeared, seems to be from Lazio, Baron is concentrated in Venezie, Barone is massively distributed throughout Italy, Baroni is widespread in the central north, Barotti is specific to the area between Rovigoto and Ferrara, Canaro and Castelmassa in the Rovigoto and Voghiera and Ferrara in the Ferrara area. These surnames should all derive, directly or through hypocorisms from the Germanic term baro (free man) declined barons (of the free man):: "... sic dictus Dominus Baro voluit et ita and placuit et placet fieri ...", in some cases may derive from dialectal forms of the term cap (headgear). We find traces of these surnames in Grosio in Valtellina in the second half of the fifteenth century, when a certain Giacomo del Baretto was Giorgio is a sacristan of the church of S. Giorgio in Grosio, in Bormio, in 1630 one such Catherina del Baron is witness in a process for witchcraft.
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