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The Last name "Melucci" in Italy and the World

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by Antonio Melucci
(Last Modified on: martedì dicembre 21, 2010)

Historical search on last name "MELUCCI". The visitors of this situated one, if interested to the search, they can send to all those news that thinks useful to the scope "Writing to: melupd@tiscali.it ". From the November of year 2000 - they have been contacts to you beyond 363 familiar nuclei.

Historical and Genealogical Investigation:

What a lot of us remember our ancestors! Very, very few. To start an investigation on one's origins, the evidence about the family is first collected by asking most elderly members for documents or pictures they preserved just for keeping a memory.

The searches of the General Registry Offices or the Parishes Registries should have been the most obvious option, but it would have been a time-comsuming and expensive procedure. The employees at the desks were sometimes little ready to support a job which would have not been within their ordinary activities.

Therefore I thought the information and communication technologies i.e. Internet could have supported me in reaching the same result.

At this aim I designed and implemented this website in order to set up a web community on the Melucci family, exchange useful information and test our progress in searching.

Only three or six ancestors are enough to date back to early 1900 or 1800, respectively.

I do not think to reach very high levels in accuracy and completeness. I started on September 2000 by using the data about my own family. Thus I succeed in contacting a fairly good number of interested people who did put me in a position to develop the work reported in the following sections and linked pages.

Some Historical Elements:

The Melucci's of Neaples and Bologna became royal privileged nobles on the 10th of October 1815 and members of the Order

of the Knights of Malta. Since 1680 members of the family were famous scholars of Law and Theology, the most eminent being:

"Virginia Melucci" was born in Bologna and died on 1615. She was an eminent woman and founded a School on Latin which

graduated some outstanding professors.

"Carlo" was born in Muro Lucano on 1701 and was a noble of that town.

"Giuseppe Nicola" was born in Muro Lucano on 1793. He was a well-known jurist and law consultant of all the lawyers of the

Province of Potenza;

"Pasquale", was borin in Muro Lucano on 1804 and died on 1874. He was Reverend and Dean, fellow of the Galluppi's School,

wrote an essay titled "Potere temporale dei Papi" (The Temporal Power of the Pose) by provoking the criticisms by many people;

"Pasquale" - nipote del Reverend Pasquale's grandson - was a jurist, born in Muro Lucano (Province of Potenza) on 1854, died on 1929,

and taught law in Rome, Macerata, Modena, Padua e Naples. The main publications were (ref. Treccani Encyclopaedia):

Trattato della separazione del patrimonio del defunto da quello dell'erede (Treatise on the Separation of the Dead Patrimony from

the Heir's);

il sistema ipotecario (The Mortgage System);

studio sul Diritto di rappresentazione (A Study on the Law of Representation);

introduzione allo studio delle scienze giuridiche (An Introduction to the Study of Law);

istituzioni del Diritto Civile (Foundations of Civil Law);

il diritto di successione (Succession Law);

la teoria delle obbligazioni (The Theory of Obligations);

il testamento (The Will);

lezioni di Diritto Civile (Lectures on Civil Law).

From 1881 to 1903, Pasquale was Full Professor of Civil Law in Modena where he lived all the life long even though he was assigned a

position in Padua. At the University of Padua - Faculty of Law - he was Professor from 1886 to 1888 and, from 1903 to 1917, first Full

Professor of Civile Law and then Emeritus Professor of Civil Law at the University of Naples.

	Pasquale Melucci was best known as Uncle Archipirest Pasquale (zio Arciprete Pasquale) as mentioned at (4). This annotation was kindly provided by Mr. Ottavio Viglione who was born in Lucania, is a member of the Melucci family, and presently resident in Boston, MA.
	"Salvatore", sacred music composer. was born in Rome on 1813 and died on 1891. He was Chapel-Master at the Cappella Giulia at the Basilique of St. Peter in the Vatican, Rome;
	"Andrea" was musician and Chapel-Master of the Cappella Giulia at the Basilique of St. Peter in the Vatican, Rome; he died in Rome on 1905.

Possible Origins of Melucci:

It is thought that Melucci could have been derived from other family names, such as Meluzzi o Melluzzi, which has been subjected to many modifications probably caused by pronounciation or transcription errors.

Moreover, it is thought Melucci derives from Mèle used in Matera, Montescaglioso, Rionero in Vúlture, Calabria, Sicily, Naples e nel Salento. A member of Mèle was Abbot in Brindisi, the latter being a town close to Grece, Calabria and Sicily - indeed Mèlis was very used on those regions. Mèlis derives from Miele (Honey). Melucci was also known in Metaponto and Muro Lucano. Melucci might also be a diminutive form of mela (apple), as from Dizionario dei Cognomi in Lucania page 131. The origin of Melucci from Melacrino did not tun out yet some traces were found in Calabria.

A note: Melucci is used in many towns of Italy: Taranto (200), Muro Lucano (22), Potenza (2), Naples (9), Trieste (6), Bologna(3), Rimini (more than 1000), Province of Florence (15).

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