GERARDO MAZZELLA

 GERARDO MAZZELLA

ertainly Sasso, instead, a name that can be considered quite amalfitano. And I do not need to search for it leads away, as might be supposed in the case of an appeal with the phonetic Country Saxon. Rest, even some famous medieval character cognominizzato “Saxo” seems to have derived the name from a house next to his home, instead descended from a mythical Germanic warrior. I refer to that Girardus de Saxo, Roman faction leader who was perhaps a relative and then fierce opponent of the famous Pope Benedict IX, one who resigned three times the papal resignation from the Throne. The name of this Sasso (Rock), also in this case far from being attributable to Saxony, is made to derive from the village of the same name at Cerveteri, where lontana Gallery, whose accounts, enemies of the deposed Benedict IX, they also had control of the castle not far from Sasso [15].


GERARDO MAZZELLA








In our case we could not go very far. I “stones” marked Job in the Middle Ages resort rocky found wherever. The local place names assigned them with or without other specific characteristic of a given territory, everywhere, and so the name remained forever fixed or slowly could be diluted in the subsequent memories. How can we forget the “rocks thebenna” Jacopo Sannazzaro mentions in his elegy in praise of Cassandra Marquis [16]? The poet speaks of the mountain in the next Tobenna Picentino, boy walking on the slopes, by the memory of his spurs and rocks that outcrop. The Amalfi Coast, that was to be marked by rocky ridges often even before the earthquakes that changed some of its topography, lends itself well to accommodate a district which in the medieval period could be designated as “stones”, and from there move on to define the name of the family that had lived or. And a name with this feature is still found in the territories of Scale: “under the Sasso”, locations mentioned in a plat nineteenth century and certainly has borrowed the name from an old habit of indicating the place [17].


Local Family, local surname. But a native of Gerard does not seem that there are tracks if not the artificial left hundreds of years after his supposed existence. A dust’ such as paintings depicting the characters of antiquity on which the artists worked imagination.


Note

[1] Cf. I. DE MADERIAGA, Ivan the Terrible, Turin 2006, p. 116.

[2] Cf. B. CANDIDA GONZAGA, Memories of the noble families of the southern provinces of Italy, II, Naples 1875, p. 8.

[3] Cf. H.PIRENNE , Economic and Social History of the Middle Ages, Milan 1967, p.144.

[4] Cf. P. TROIANO, Reginna Minori trionfante, Minor 1985, p. 126.

[5] There also.

[6] There also.

[7] Id., pp. 126-127.

[8] Cf. F. CARDINI, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the figure of Brother Gerardo Sasso, Scala in the Middle Ages, Amalfi 1996, p. 88.

[9] Cf. S. FRIENDS, Medieval Heraldry of Scala, Scala in the Middle Ages, cit., p. 309.

[10] There also.

[11] Cf. G.GARGANO, In the early days of the Civitas Scalensis and training of local nobility, Scala in the Middle Ages, cit., p. 105.

[12] Cf. C. CURRO ', And if Gerardo Sasso was not born in Scala? In Eco Magazine, September 1998.

[13] There also.

[14] Cf. The scrolls of the Archives bishop of Amalfi and Ravello (I-IV), Naples 1952-1959; The scrolls of the Archbishop of Amalfi, Massalubrense 1981; The scrolls of the bishop of Ravello, Naples 1983; The scrolls of the bishop of Minori, Minor 1987.

[15] Cf. F. Marazzi, you Gerardo, in Treccani.it

[16] Cf. J. SANNAZZARO, III.

[17] Cf. In. AVERSANO, Looking at the place names of Scale: words and things of a geography “extreme”, Scala in the Middle Ages, cit., p.135.


Carmelo Currò

He was born in Salerno, where he lives. Graduated in Political Sciences and Humanities, is interested in genealogy and history of the Church. It journalist, historian and honorary inspector of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.


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