Zurolo

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Variations

Zollino, Zorlino,^[1] Zullini, Zullo, Zurla,^[2] Zurli, Zurlini, Zurlino, Zurlo, Zuroli,^[3] Zurri,^[4] Zurro.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, among all known bearers of the surname Zurolo there were residents in various countries as follows: Italy (frequency 1:155,220), of United States of America (frequency 1:5,491,802), of Germany (frequency 1:8,945,051), of France (frequency 1:9,488,960), of Switzerland (frequency 1:1,368,819) and Netherlands (frequency 1:16,887,176).^[5]

Origins and diffusion

Zollino is present in Apulia, in the Lecce area.^[6]

Zullini is a surname that is not very common in Italy. The region where it is most present is Veneto, then descending are: Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio, Tuscany, and Marche.^[7]

Zullo is mostly present in the Campania region, on average in: Apulia, Molise, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Lazio and less in the rest of the other Italian regions, It also has a lineage in Messina.^[8]

Zurla is present in Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, less in other Italian regions.^[9]

Zurli is mostly present in Tuscany, on average in Lazio, Lombardy, Umbria, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria, and to a lesser extent in other Italian regions.^[10] The countries where this surname is generally widespread are: Brazil, Argentina, France and Switzerland, less so in others.^[11]

Zurlino is present in the majority in the Molise region, followed by Abruzzo and Emilia-Romagna.^[12] The nations in which the surname is present, by intensity, are: Australia more than Italy, United States of America, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Germany and Kenya.^[13]

Zurlo is present in Calabria, Campania, Lucania, Molise and Apulia (Brindisi, Lecce, Taranto) and others regions.^[14]

Zurolo is the archaic form of the surname Zurlo, it is very widespread in Castellammare di Stabia^[15] and in the Neapolitan hinterland area.^[16] It seems that the surname is very frequent in southern Italy, however, it also has a strain in the Padua area.^[17]

Zuroli is present only in the Basilicata region, with only a few families bearing this surname today.^[18]

Zurri is present only in Tuscany, Umbria, Piedmont and Liguria.^[19]

Zurro is present in: Apulia, Campania, Sicily, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and on average in other regions.^[20]

Partial view of the city of Çorlu, formerly called *Syrallo-Tzurulos Çorlu, formerly Syrallo-Tzurulos* (Zurulo-Zurolo).^[21]

Meaning

Zollino is perhaps predical: from the Zurolo family (surname adapted to Zullo, Zullini, Zurlini: descendants of Zurolo and Zurlo).^[22]^[23]

Zullo could derive from the modified italian name of Giulio.^[24] According to some authoritative genealogists, the surname Zullo, from the Greek Tsulos, derives from an unknown progenitor of the Zullo family.^[25]

Zurla could derive from a Tuscan nickname, meaning noise.^[26] The Zurla family,^[27] the Cremonese branch of the Neapolitan Zurolo family,^[28] bore this variant of their surname, which then spread throughout that area of Lombardy, arriving in Cremona in the 12th century.^[29]

Zuroli is a plural form of the more common Zurolo, is associated with the Zurolo family.^[30]^[31]^[32] Zurli family, the Trieste branch of the Neapolitan Zurolo family bore this variant of the surname, which has been mentioned in Trieste since the 15th century.^[33]

Zurlino is a surname derived from Zurolo and Zurlo, it has the same meanings.^[34]

Zurlo certainly originates from the Greek 'Zurlos' = crazy. n. m. [prob., dialect variant of girlo]. – In the Gorizia dialect it means silly or stupid.^[35] In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., person of little brain, or reckless, escaped (with these uses fig., also to the feminine Zurla^[36]). Żurlo n. m. [der. of żurlare], ancient Tuscan – ruzzo, lively and noisy cheerfulness, desire to joke, and similar.^[37] The Zurlo family, a Calabrian branch of the Neapolitan Zurolo family, bore this variant of their surname and arrived in Crotone in the 14th century.^[38] Two other branches of the family with the same surname have been traced in Genoa in Liguria and in Giovinazzo in Puglia.^[39]

The surname Zurolo in some ancient texts also written in the Zurulus^[41] form, now obsolete and its derivation Zurlo could derive from modifications of the Greek name Ζωή (Zoe). Various authors of the past and modern researchers have noted that Zurolo or Zurlo (or Zullo) is the same as the Piscicello or Piscicelli family, whose House used on the shield the aforementioned fish-pisces, of black color called zullo or zurlo or zurolo (from the Greek zωή, zoe, meaning life; tsulos; from the Latin zullus, zurlus, zurulus, meaning to rise, to arise), then widespread in the sea of Otranto (where it possessed fiefs).^[42]^[43]^[44] Anciently transcribed in documents also in Latin in the variants of: Zurulo/Zurolo,^[45] Zurulum, Zurulus, Zurolos and Zurlos now disappeared. The surnames Zurolo could be of Greek origin and subsequently Italianised. The surname as the original toponym of a fortified town (formerly a Roman colony in Thrace), today Çorlu (Turkey). Çorlu, formerly Syrallo-Tzurulos (in Italian Zurulo-Zurolo), a locality in the province of Tekirdağ in Turkey. During Roman and Byzantine times, the town was referred to as Tzourolos,^[46] or Syrallo, and later became Tiroloi (in GreekΤυρολόη) (see Tabula Peutingeriana). Furthermore, the spelling Zurolus is used for the Latinised form of the name of the episcopal see identified with present-day Çorlu in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.^[47] The first known document where the surname of the noble Zurolo family (also called Zurlo but also Zuroli or Zurlo^[48] or Zullo or Capece Zurolo/Zurlo or Zurolo d’Aprano or Aprano^[49] in this document and in others) appears transcribed is an Italian will from 1369.^[50]^[51]

Zuroli is the transcription of the surname Zurolo in the plural, in Naples, a city in southern Italy, between Via dei Tribunali and Via Vicaria Vecchia, in the Pendino district, there are two ancient alleys located in the historic center of the city, from which they take their name from the noble family who also had their noble palace there.^[52]

Zurri is a rare and widespread surname in northern Italy, it can mean joy.^[53]

Zurro, Żurro s. m. – ancient Tuscan variant of Żurlo: to catch in the act of frolicking, of having fun.^[54] It derive from a word of the Sicilian dialect or be more properly a variant of the surname Zurlo.^[55] It is an older voice than the one in Zurlo. It is similar to the surname Zumbo.^[56]

People

Among the famous people with this surname, in chronological order, appear:

Giovanni Zurolo, also called Giovanni Zurlo, in Latin Johannes Zurolo (*1382 †1440), he was a count, a feudal lord and an Useful Lord, of the Terra d'Angri, of Roccapiemonte and of other lands of the Kingdom of Naples; already a valiant leader.
Francesco Zurolo, also called Francesco Zurlo, in some ancient transcriptions Francisci Zuroli or Francesco Zurulo (b. first half of the 15th century-d. Otranto, 11 August 1480), he was a baron of Oppido Lucano and feudal lord of Pietragalla and Casalaspro.
Giuseppe Capece Zurlo, (1711–1801), he was an Italian cardinal who served as archbishop of Naples.
Giuseppe Zurlo, (Baranello, 6 November 1757-Naples, 10 November 1828), he was an Italian jurist and politician.
Placido Zurla, O.S.B. Cam., (2 April 1769 – 29 October 1834) was an Italian Camaldolese monk and prelate, who was Cardinal Vicar of Rome and a writer on medieval geography.
Valerio Zurlini (Bologna, 19 March 1926 – Verona, 26 October 1982) was an Italian director and screenwriter.
Franco Zurlo, (1940–2018), he was an Italian boxer.
Mario Zurlini (17 March 1942 – 16 February 2023) was an Italian professional football player and manager.
Emmanuele Zurlo, (Catanzaro, 27 February 1988), he was an Italian beach football player.
Michael Anthony Zullo, (Brisbane, 11 September 1988), he was an Australian footballer of Italian origin, who played as a defender or midfielder.
Federico Zurlo, (Cittadella, 27 February 1994), he is an Italian cyclist.

Notes

[1]
Michele Francipane (November 2005). "SECONDA PARTE" [SECOND PART]. Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (Dictionary) (in Italian). Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. pp. 743 and 744. ISBN 8817007641. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
[2]
Staff of Treccani. "Zurlo" [Zurlo]. Treccani (in Italian). s. m. [prob., dialectal variant of girlo]. – In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., a person of little brain, or reckless, hasty (with these uses fig., also in the feminine zurla). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
[3]
Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "Capitolo I, Memorie historiche" [Chapter I, Historical Memories]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Zurolo House. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). p. 21.
[4]
Michele Francipane (November 2005). "TERZA PARTE" [THIRD PART]. Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (Dictionary) (in Italian). Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. p. 976. ISBN 8817007641. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
[5]
Staff of Forebears (2014). "Zurolo surname". Forebears. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurolo in Italy and in the rest of the world.
[6]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zollino" [Distribution of the Zollino surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 257 Zollino families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 21 April 2025. Zollino families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zollino in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[7]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zullini" [Diffusion of the surname Zullini]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 11 Zullini families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 23 April 2025. Zullini families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zullini in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[8]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zullo" [Diffusion of the surname Zullo]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 1220 Zullo families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zullo families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zullo in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[9]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurla" [Distribution of the surname Zurla]. COGNOMIX. There are approximately 119 Zurla families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurla families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurla in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[10]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurli" [Diffusion of the surname Zurli]. COGNOMIX. There are approximately 178 Zurli families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurli families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurli in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[11]
Staff of Forebears (2014). "Zurli surname". Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurli in Italy and in the rest of the world. Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurli in Italy and in the rest of the world. Forebears. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
[12]
Staff of COGNOMIX. "Diffusione del cognome Zurlino" [Distribution of the surname Zurlino]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 13 Zurlino families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 12 April 2025. Zurli families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurlino in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[13]
Staff of Forebears (2014). "Zurlino Cognome" [Zurlino Surname]. Forebears (in Italian). Look at the graphs, the spread of the surname Zurlino in Italy and in the rest of the world. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
[14]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurlo" [Distribution of the surname Zurlo]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are approximately 1193 Zurlo families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Zurlo families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurlo in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[15]
Staff of CODICEINVERSO.IT. "Cognome Zurolo" [Surname Zurolo]. CODICEINVERSO.IT (in Italian). In Italy there are about 104 families with the surname Zurolo. The municipality where the surname is most widespread is Castellammare di Stabia. The surname is distributed across 39 Italian municipalities. Retrieved 5 May 2024. See the distribution of the surname Zuroli in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[16]
Staff of PAGAN. "Italian Surnames – Cognomi Italiani – Z, (ZURLO-ZURLO)" [Italian Surnames – Italian Surnames – Z, (ZURLO-ZURLO)]. PAGAN (in Italian). Zurolo is specific to Castellammare di Stabia in the Neapolitan area, it should be an archaic form of the surname Zurlo, which would seem to be typical of the southern peninsula, but also has a lineage in the Paduan area, we have an example of the use of Zurolo instead of Zurlo in Solofra in a will from 1533: "Item, ante partem I prelego and leave to the said magnificent master Dominico my dear nephew I integrate my hospitio cum taberna and habitation which I keep and possess with gay courtyard and other gatherings and actions of any kind in the public square of said land, juxta li boni of master Potente Morena, of Baptista Caropriso, of Francisco Ronca and of the magnificent lord Joanne Zurolo and others of which taberna et altri soi habitatiuni sopto et supra astraco dicto messere...", could be of Greek origins and derive from modifications of the Greek name Ζωή (Zoe), traces of these surnames we find in a will of 1369: "In nome domini nostri Iesu Christi Anno a nativitate eiusdem thousandesimo trecentoesimo sexagesimo nono Regnante autem Serenissima domina nostra domina Johanna dei gratia Hierusalem et Sicilie Regina ducatus Apulie Principatus Capue Provincie et forcalquerij ac Pedemontis Comitissa. Regnorum vero eius anno bicesimo septimo feliciter. Amen. The second month of February and September Indizionis Neapoli. Nos Georgius Aycardi de Benevento Reginalis Camere ballictus Nicolaus Thorij dicti mancini de casale Sancti Laurentii de Limata publicus ubilibet per totum Regnum Sicilie Reginali aucthoritate notarius et testa infra scripti biri utique licterat, ad hoc specialiter bocati et rogati videlicet dominus Tuccillus Zurulus de Neapoli Miles Reginalis hospitii Senescallus ...", at the beginning of 1400 we find the baron of Angri Giovanni Zurlo, a supporter of King Louis III of Anjou on the throne of Naples, in the same period the Zurlo family held the title of Counts of Nocera. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
[17]
Staff of HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome. "ZURLO I ZUROLO" [ZURLO I ZUROLO]. HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome (in Italian). Zurolo is specific to Castellammare di Stabia in the Neapolitan area, it should be an archaic form of the surname Zurlo, which would seem to be typical of the southern peninsula, but also has a lineage in the Paduan area, we have an example of the use of Zurolo instead of Zurlo in Solofra in a will from 1533: "Item, ante partem I prelego and leave to the said magnificent master Dominico my dear nephew I integrate my hospitio cum taberna and habitation which I keep and possess with gay courtyard and other gatherings and actions of any kind in the public square of said land, juxta li boni of master Potente Morena, of Baptista Caropriso, of Francisco Ronca and of the magnificent lord Joanne Zurolo and others of which taberna and other soi habitatiuni above and above astraco dicto messere...", could be of Greek origins and derive from modifications of the Greek name??? (Zoe), we find traces of these surnames in a will of 1369: "In nome domini nostri Iesu Christi Anno a nativitate eiusdem thousandesimo three hundredesimo sexagesimo ninth Regnante autem Serenissima domina nostra domina Johanna dei gratia Hierusalem et Sicilie Regina ducatus Apulie Principatus Capue Provincie et forcalquerij ac Pedemontis Comitissa. Regnorum vero eius year bicesimo septimo feliciter. Amen. Die secundo mensis februarii septime Indionis Neapoli. Nos Georgius Aycardi de Benevento Reginalis Camere ballictus Nicolaus Thorij dicti mancini de casale Sancti Laurentii de Limata publicus ubilibet per totum Regnum Sicilie Reginali aucthoritate notarius et testa infra scripti biri utique licterat, ad hoc specialiter bocati et rogati videlicet dominus Tuccillus Zurulus de Neapoli Miles Reginalis hospitii Senescallus ...", at the beginning of 1400 we find the baron of Angri Giovanni Zurlo, a supporter of King Louis III of Anjou on the throne of Naples, in the same period the Zurlo family included the title of Counts of Nocera, additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli. Zurlo is a surname present in Calabria, Puglia and Naples which certainly originates from the Greek 'zurlòs' = madman. Rome (RM). Retrieved 5 May 2024. The spread of the surname Zurolo in Italy seems to be mainly widespread in the southern Italy area, but it also has a strong strain in the Padua area, in Veneto.
[18]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zuroli" [Distribution of Zuroli surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 2 Zuroli families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zuroli families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zuroli in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[19]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurri" [Distribution of surname Zurri]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are approximately 17 Zurri families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurri families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurri in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[20]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Diffusione del cognome Zurro" [Diffusion of the surname Zurro]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). There are about 101 Zurro families in Italy. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Zurro families in Italy. See the distribution of the surname Zurro in Italy, from the graph on the page.
[21]
Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "Capitolo I, Memorie historiche" [Chapter I, Historical Memories]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). Çorlu, formerly Syrallo-Tzurulos (Zurulo-Zurolo), a town in the province of Tekirdağ in Türkiye. p. 13.
[22]
Staff of COGNOMIX. "Zollino – Origine del Cognome" [Zollino – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It could derive from the Lecce toponym of Zollino, probable place of origin of the founders. The surname Zollino is Apulian, typical of the Lecce area. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
[23]
Michele Francipane (November 2005). "SECONDA PARTE" [SECOND PART]. Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (Dictionary) (in Italian). The toponym Zollino in the Lecce area is perhaps predical: from the Zurolo family (surname adapted to Zullini, Zullo, Zurlini: descendants of Zurolo). Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. p. 743. ISBN 8817007641. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
[24]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zullo – Origine del Cognome" [Zullo – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It should derive from dialectal modifications of the name Giulio. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
[25]
Staff of HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome. "Cognome: Zullo" [Surname: Zullo]. HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome (in Italian). Rome (RM). Retrieved 7 April 2025. An ancient family of the Kingdom of Naples, of clear and ancestral virtue, which spread over the centuries to various regions of Italy. The origin of this surname, according to authoritative genealogists, is believed to be a modification, due to dialectal phonetics and/or manuscript errors, of the Greek surname "Tsulos," likely belonging to a now unknown founder.
[26]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurla – Origine del Cognome" [Zurla – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It could derive from a nickname linked to the Tuscan term zurlo-ciurlo, "whim", but also "noise". Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
[27]
Michele Francipane (November 2005). "SECONDA PARTE" [SECOND PART]. Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (Dictionary) (in Italian). The Zurla (noble family), of noble marquises and counts. Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. p. 744. ISBN 8817007641. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
[28]
Count Berardo Candida-Gonzaga (1875). "ZURLO" [ZURLO]. Memorie delle famiglie nobili delle province meridionali d'Italia, Volume 2 [Memoirs of the noble families of the southern provinces of Italy, Volume 2] (Paperback) (in Italian). Vol. 2. The Zurolo family enjoyed nobility in Naples, with the Seat of Capuano and Nido, and resided in the cities of Bitonto, Giovinazzo and Crema. Naples (NA): Cav. G. de Angelis and son's typical stab. p. 219. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
[29]
Giovanni Battista di Crollalanza (1886). "ZUZ" [ZUZ]. Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti, Volume 1 [Historical-blazon dictionary of extinct and flourishing Italian noble and notable families, Volume 1] (Dictionary) (in Italian). Vol. 1. ZURLA of Crema. — Originally from Naples, brought to Crema by an Alberto in 1140. — Belonging to the Guelph faction and consequently a partisan of the Benzoni. In the assembly in which Giorgio Benzone was proclaimed Lord of Crema, eight individuals from the Zurla family took part, and of these, an Enrico was podestà of Crema during the period of the aforementioned Giorgio. — Under the Venetian Republic, the Zurla family occupied a place among the three city superintendents almost every year. — Placido Zurla, a Camaldolese monk, was created cardinal by His Royal Church by Pius VII in 1823. With a diploma dated 12 November 1669, Achille and Luigi Zurla obtained the titles of marquises, counts and knights of the empire from Emperor Leopold I of Austria. At the direction of the Heraldic Journal. p. 129. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
[30]
Cesare D'Engenio Caracciolo; Carlo De Lellis (1654). Napoli Sacra-Que oltre le vere origini, e fundationi di tutte le Chiese, Monasterij, Cappelle, Spedali, e d'altri luoghi sacri della Città di Napoli, e de' suoi Borghi. Si tratta di tutti i Corpi, e Reliquie de' Santi .... Parte Seconda O' vero Svpplimento A Napoli Sacra Di D. Cesare D'Engenio Caracciolo Del Signor Carlo De Lellis, Que si aggiungono Le Fondationi Di Tvtte Le Chiese, Monasteri, & altri luoghi Sacri della Città di Napoli e suoi Borghi, ereti doppo dell'Engenio, Con Le Loro Inscrittioni, Et Epitafii, Reliquie, e Corpi di Santi, & altre opere pie, che vi si fanno, E con altre cose notabili. 2 [Sacred Naples beyond the true origins and foundations of all the Churches, Monasteries, Chapels, Hospitals, and other sacred places of the City of Naples and its villages. It deals with all the Bodies and Relics of the Saints.... Part Two O' True Development In Sacred Naples By D. Cesare D'Engenio Caracciolo By Signor Carlo De Lellis, Which Adds The Foundations Of All The Churches, Monasteries , & other sacred places of the city of Naples and its villages, erected after the Engenio, with their inscriptions, and epitaphs, relics, and bodies of saints, & other pious works, which are done there, and with other notable things. 2] (Ancient book) (in Italian). ...and the alley which today is called de' Zuroli was inhabited by the Boccapianola family, during the Neapolitan Swabian dynasty... p. 21. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
[31]
Carlo Celano; et al. (Salvatore Palermo) (1792). Delle notizie del bello, dell'antico, e del curioso della citta di Napoli, per gli signori forastieri, raccolte dal canonico Carlo Celano napoletano; divise in dieci giornate, .. Giornata terza · Volume 3 [Of the news of the beautiful, the ancient, and the curious of the city of Naples, for foreign gentlemen, collected by the Neapolitan canon Carlo Celano; divide into ten days, .. Day three · Volume 3] (Ancient book) (in Italian). Vol. 3. Leaving this church, moving forward, on the right you can see an alley formerly called the Angioni, today the Porteria di San Giorgio. Next are two other alleys. The one on the left, which goes up towards the minor door of the Cathedral, in ancient times as today, was called de' Zurli. Naples (NA). p. 220. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
[32]
Staff di BIBLIOTHECA HERTZIANA, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ART HISTORY. "Topography of Naples, Gazzetteer of toponyms, Carlo Celano, Notitie del bello, dell'antico e del curioso della città di Napoli per i signori forastieri, divise in dieci giornate (= volumi), Napoli, 1692., Giornata I, Vico dei Zuroli" [Topography of Naples, Gazzetteer of toponyms, Carlo Celano, News of the beautiful, the ancient and the curious of the city of Naples for the foreign lords, divided into ten days (= volumes), Naples, 1692., Day I, Vico de' Zurli.]. BIBLIOTHECA HERTZIANA (in Italian). Quote taken from Carlo Celano's book and proposed on the university research site: ...The one on the left, which goes up towards the minor door of the Cathedral, in ancient times as up to now, was called de' Zuroli, for this noble family of the Capua seat who [281] lived there. Rome (RM). Retrieved 19 July 2024.
[33]
Staff of HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome. "Zurli" [Zurli]. HERALDRYS INSTITUTE OF ROME-Araldion Italian D.C.V. Rome. Ancient family of Trieste, included among the thirteen patricians of that land. A Cristoforo, in the year 1400, was of the Balia, a Domenico was in the service of the Pope Pius II and, in 1463, was destined to announce to his homeland the peace concluded between the Emperor and the Venetian Republic. With a diploma of 1501 he was created familiar of the Empress Bianca-Maria. In 1811 the family obtained the title of barons, and in 1855 that of knights of Ehrwall. That the members of the family are careless of vulgar things, promising themselves from their own energies alone the due reward, is proven by the documents known up to today as the Historical-Blason Dictionary of the commander Giovanni Battista di Crollalanza who has collected the traces left by the family in those cities where he lived holding legislative, military or other positions, contributing not a little to the success of those documents useful for the discovery of this family. Rome (RM). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
[34]
Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurlino – Origine del Cognome" [Zurlino – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX. The description is the same as that of the surname Zurlo. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
[35]
Christian Seu (28 February 2014). "Non sapete cos'è lo "zurlo"? Leggetelo nel Dizionario" [Don't know what "zurlo" is? Read it in the Dizionario]. Messaggero Veneto (Newspaper) (in Italian). ...to the A of «acqua de spina» to the Z of «zurlo» (said of a fool or a stupid person)... Venice (VE): Nord Est Multimedia S.p.a. Retrieved 26 April 2025.
[36]
Staff of Treccani. "Zurlo" [Zurlo]. Treccani (in Italian). S. m. [prob., dialect variant of girlo]. – In the Venetian dialect, spinning top; fig., person of little brain, or reckless, escaped (with these uses fig., also to the feminine zurla). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
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Staff of Treccani. "Żurlo" [Żurlo]. Treccani (in Italian). żurlo s. m. [der. of żurlare], Tuscan ant. – Ruzzo, lively and boisterous cheerfulness, desire to joke, and similar: to be, to go, to enter into a state of zurlo, to be seized by the desire to joke; to put me into a state of lively desire, or in agitation: since you have put me into a state of zurlo, if I tire you out with writing, say: «be it my fault, because I wrote to him» (Machiavelli). Retrieved 5 May 2024.
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Fabrizio Zurlo; Staff of Nobili Napoletani; Dott. Andrea Pesavento; Dott. Pino Rende; Prof. Mario Perfetti. "Zurlo di Crotone" [Zurlo of Crotone]. Nobili Napoletani (in Italian). They were and still are holders of the following noble titles of patricians of Crotone, barons on the surname. We can certainly date the relationship of Zurlo family with the Calabria Region around 1400. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
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Giovanni Battista di Crollalanza (1886). "ZUZ" [ZUZ]. Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti, Volume 1 [Historical-blazon dictionary of extinct and flourishing Italian noble and notable families, Volume 1] (Dictionary) (in Italian). Vol. 1. Mentioned only with the shields or coats of arms and the origin of these other two branches. At the direction of the Heraldic Journal. p. 129.
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Gennaro Zurolo. "Capitolo V, parte I - Monumenti e dimore storiche (roccheforti, castelli, manieri e palazzi) che hanno ospitato personaggi della Casata Albero genealogico illustrato" [Chapter V, Part I - Monuments and historic residences (fortresses, castles, manors, and palaces) that hosted members of the House. Illustrated family tree.]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (Paperback) (in Italian). See the two photos and the captions regarding Palazzo Zuroli seu Zurolo. p. 131.
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Federico Lattanzio (10 February 2016). "Zurlo, famiglia" [Zurlo, family]. HistAntArtSI (in Italian). The Zurolo family was also called in Zurulus, in some ancient texts. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
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Count Berardo Candida-Gonzaga (1875). "ZUROLO" [ZURLO]. Memorie delle famiglie nobili delle province meridionali d'Italia, Volume 2 [Memoirs of the noble families of the southern provinces of Italy, Volume 2] (Paperback) (in Italian). Vol. 2. This family is the same as the Piscicelli family, previously called Ollopisce, which, using a fish on its shield, which in Terra d'Otranto where it owned fiefdoms, was called Zurlo/Zurulo. It happened that a branch of this family was surnamed Zurlo/Zurolo, and then Zurolo o Zurlo only. Naples (NA): Cav. G. de Angelis and son's typical stab. p. 219. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
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Marquis Vittorio Spreti (1929). "LETTERA C" [LETTER C]. Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana, Parte 2 [Italian historical-noble encyclopedia, Part 2] (Encyclopedia) (in Italian). Vol. 2. Ancient branch of the Piscicelli family, called, according to the writers, Zurolo, because it used a fish on its shield called in Terra d'Otranto, where the Piscicelli family owned many fiefdoms, Zurolo or Zurlo. (2nd ed.). Milan (MI): UNIONE TIPOGRAFICA di Milano. p. 282. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
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Luigi Palmieri; et al. (Illustrated by R. Biamonte) (October 1999). "ZUROLO" [ZUROLO]. Cosenza e le sue famiglie, attraverso testi, atti e manoscritti, Volume 1 [Cosenza and its families, through texts, deeds and manuscripts, Volume 1] (Paperback) (in Italian). Vol. 1. This family is a branch of the Piscicelli, which had a fish on its shield which, in Terra d'Otranto, was called Zurulo/Zurolo/ Zurlo. Cosenza (CS): LUIGI PELLEGRINI EDITORE. p. 536. ISBN 88-8101-067-4. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
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Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurlo – Origine del Cognome" [Zurlo – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 5 May 2024. The origin of the surname Zurolo, also called Zurlo or Zurulus
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Anna Komnene; et al. (Translator E. R. A. Sewter) (6 August 2009) [Circa 1148]. "Tzouroulos" [Tzouroulos]. The Alexiad [The Alexiad] (E-book). Penguin Books Limited. p. 242. ISBN 9780141904542. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
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Staff of Vatican Secretariat of State (2013) (2013). Annuario pontificio (2013) [Pontifical Yearbook (2013)] (Yearbook) (in Italian). Vatican City (VA): Vatican Publishing House. p. 1013. ISBN 9788820990701. Retrieved 5 May 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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Luigi Tufano (2020). "ZUROLO (Zurolo/Zurlo) di Luigi Tufano, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 100 (2020)" [ZUROLO (Zurolo/Zurlo) by Luigi Tufano, Biographical Dictionary of Italians – Volume 100 (2020)]. Treccani (in Italian). 100. Retrieved 6 April 2025. A noble Neapolitan family, attested in the oldest epigraphic, narrative and documentary sources with the onomastic form Zurolo, which was ascribed at the end of the Middle Ages to the city seat of Capuana.
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Gennaro Zurolo; Staff of Nobili Napoletani (2007). "Famiglia Zurolo" [Zurolo family]. Nobili Napoletani (in Italian). also called Zuroli or Zurlo or Zullo or Capece Zurlo or Capece Zurolo d’Aprano or d'Apriano or Aprano (Apriano is a Campanian toponym in the province of Caserta which was one of the main fiefdoms of this family). Retrieved 6 April 2025.
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Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurlo/Zurolo – Origine del Cognome" [Zurlo/Zurolo – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Traces of these surnames are found in a will from 1369: In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi Anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo trecentesimo sexagesimo nono Regnante autem Serenissima Domina Nostra Johanna dei Gratia Hierusalem et Sicilie Regina Ducatus Apulie Principatus Capue Provincie et forcalquerij ac Pedemontis Comitissa. Regnorum vero eius anno bicesimo septimo feliciter. Amen. Die secundo mensis februarii septime indictionis Neapolis. Nos Georgius Aycardi de Benevento Reginalis Camere ballictus Nicolaus Thorij dicti mancini de casale Sancti Laurentii de Limata publicus ubilibet per totum Regnum Sicilie Reginali aucthoritate notarius et teste infra scripti biri utique licterat, ad hoc specialiter bocati et rogati videlicet dominus Tuccillus Zurulus de Neapoli Miles Reginalis hospitii Senescallus...
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Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "Capitolo I, Memorie historiche" [Chapter I, Historical Memories]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Zurolo House. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). pp. 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16. From the first half of the 14th century the use of the double surname (Piscicello Zurolo or Zurulo) became widespread for the reorganization of the city seats, wanted by Robert of Anjou (1309–1343), and the Zurolo or Zurulo or Zurlo (or Zullo), also called Zuroli, officially joined the noble Seat of Capuana, in the Piscicelli district, a locality in the province of Tekirdağin Turkey, located south-east of Thrace (from the Greek Θράκη; from the Latin Thracia, former province of the Roman Empire; historical region of the Balkan peninsula divided between Greece and Turkey largely, and Bulgaria for a short stretch), and precisely on the long route of the flat Roman road, between Adrianople and Byzantium-Constantinople. Berardo Candida Gonzaga and other authoritative authors of the time asserted that the Zurolo or Zurlo (or Zullo) is the same as the Piscicello or Piscicelli, whose House used on the shield the aforementioned fish-pisces, of black color called zullo or zurlo or zurolo (from the Greek zωή, zoe, meaning life; tsulos; from the Latin zullus, zurlus, zurulus, meaning to rise, to arise), then spread to the Terra d'Otranto (where it owned fiefdoms). On the other hand, the term Tzurulum derives from the Hunno-Turkish word saola which means to monitor, indicating a fortified village – Tzurulum ingressus castrum muniebat, so much so that in 441 AD, the year of the reign of Theodosius II, emperor of the East from 408 to 450, is often cited in ancient maps and documentary sources of Byzantine historiography (see Procopius of Caesarea, DE ÆDIFICIS, Libro IV), as one of the most important and strategic outposts of the Eastern Roman Empire. There were numerous fortified works in the 4th century, designed and built to stem the advances of the barbarian populations who repeatedly devastated these borderlands. Of the fortified city of Çorlu (formerly Tzurulumo Tzurulos) there still remain traces of its imposing Roman and Byzantine walls (see), remodeled several times until the time of the Palaeologus, the last dynasty of Byzantium which ruled the empire from 1258 to 1453. This family, also to distinguish itself from the original branch, gave itself the double surname of Piscicello Zurolo which it replaced, around the 13th century, definitively – with the descendants of a certain Giovanni Giovannello Piscicello known as Zurolo.
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Staff di Altervista (22 September 2024). "Il vico della famiglia Zuroli or Zurolo" [The alley of Zuroli family]. Altervista (in Italian). This ancient family originally had its home in the historic center of Naples, in the ancient Forcella district, where today you can still admire the family palace with portal (on Via dei Tribunali) in Gothic style, built between the 14th and 15th centuries, by from which the Vico took its name, Vicoletto dei Zuroli, near the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia. Altervista. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
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Michele Francipane (November 2005). "SECONDA PARTE" [SECOND PART]. Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (Dictionary) (in Italian). The rare Zurri in the North can mean joy. Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. pp. 743 and 744. ISBN 8817007641. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
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Staff of Treccani. "Żurro" [Żurro]. Treccani (in Italian). żurro s. m. – Ancient Tuscan variant of żurlo: to take in the z., to surprise in the act of frolicking, of having fun: You will keep those crazy people at bay, And everyone will be taken in this way in zurro (Pulci). Retrieved 23 April 2025.
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Staff of COGNOMIX (2005). "Zurro – Origine del Cognome" [Zurro – Origin of the Surname]. COGNOMIX (in Italian). It should derive from a dialect nickname linked to the Sicilian zurru, "uncouth, coarse, rough", or it could constitute a variant of Zurlo. The surname Zurro would seem to be typical of the Gargano, of Sannicandro Garganico (FG) in particular. Nomix s.r.l. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
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"SECONDA PARTE" [SECOND PART]. Dizionario ragionato dei cognomi italiani [Annotated Dictionary of Italian Surnames] (Dictionary) (in Italian). Zurro ancient word for Zurlo from the South (Zurlo and Zurlini in the Centre-North [(more in Emilia-Romagna]). From the Calabrese dialect zumbu and variant zummu: bump, excrescence; assigned by analogy to someone who is large and stubborn [→ Zurro]. HERALDRY Nickname specific to Sicily where it is sporadically present, crossable with Zumbo, in the North with Zurlo. From the Sicilian dialect: zurru, denotes someone with coarse behavior and manners; rough, uncouth, uncouth. Milan (MI): Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. November 2005. pp. 743 and 744. ISBN 8817007641. Retrieved 26 March 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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