My father used to tell me that we were very few Crispi contrary, for me as he said it (and consider that his words certainly had an impressive impact on my imagination of a child) I suggested that we were the only ones to bring the almost the surname of the illustrious statesman (with whom - as I will explain in more detail later - are also related).
When I was little it filled me with pride and was a source of pride for me.
Moreover, this did not follow that the attitude of my father who, in her quiet, he was deeply proud of his family tradition and felt deeply honored to lead not only the same last name but the same the name of Francesco Crispi, patriot Mazzini first and then Prime Minister in one of the first government of united Italy.
Then, in 1994, it turned out the name of Michelangelo Crispi, Catania, in Indianapolis in 1994 that won the gold in the championships World Rowing Lightweight double again in 1999 and rejoined in the same specialty).
I suffered a great little cognitive shock. Great was my disappointment in realizing that collapsed as a myth, somewhat emulating my father, I had built inside me about our supposed uniqueness.
That sure is that we (our specific, me and my brother, my cousins \u200b\u200band my father's sister) are among the few in Italy, to be related with the statesman: the other branch of the family quest'ascendenza claim is that for Crispi Chiarenza that connects directly with a grandson of Francesco Crispi.
Other Crispi related with the statesman, living in Latin America, where the natural son of Francesco Crispi moved to live, driven by his father embarrassed by his conduct unbecoming, at the time of the scandal of the Bank of Italy, which among other things tells Sebastiano Vassalli narrative form in his novel "The Swan" (to read the review at that time published in "The index" click here).
In any case, "Crispi" in Italy are really Pochini: just a few hundred, scattered in small groups in almost all the national territory, except - it would seem - of Puglia and a few other regions.
remains, however, certain that my family is of Albanian origin and derives from that nucleus of Albanians, immigrants (as they say today) who arrived in Italy to escape alla'avanzata of the Ottoman Empire, spreading first in southern Italy (Adriatic and Ionian side) and then in certain parts of Sicily, which gave rise to some countries of "ethnicity" pure ex-MOVO were built (as, for example, Piana degli Albanesi) and others to a mixed composition (as, indeed, was and is Palazzo Adriano).
But we tell in more detail in a later post.
As regards the meaning of the surname, my father always raised me - probably - on the basis of knowledge handed down to family, but not supported by concrete language basics, that "Crispi" in Albanian it means "head of house."
On this point I would like to request an in-depth, but this field is stingy with information internet because almost all investigations on the origin of family names are available for a fee.
But to dissolve these doubts make, sooner or later, a search in the library or in the "Dictionary of Italian surnames."
When I was little it filled me with pride and was a source of pride for me.
Moreover, this did not follow that the attitude of my father who, in her quiet, he was deeply proud of his family tradition and felt deeply honored to lead not only the same last name but the same the name of Francesco Crispi, patriot Mazzini first and then Prime Minister in one of the first government of united Italy.
Then, in 1994, it turned out the name of Michelangelo Crispi, Catania, in Indianapolis in 1994 that won the gold in the championships World Rowing Lightweight double again in 1999 and rejoined in the same specialty).
I suffered a great little cognitive shock. Great was my disappointment in realizing that collapsed as a myth, somewhat emulating my father, I had built inside me about our supposed uniqueness.
That sure is that we (our specific, me and my brother, my cousins \u200b\u200band my father's sister) are among the few in Italy, to be related with the statesman: the other branch of the family quest'ascendenza claim is that for Crispi Chiarenza that connects directly with a grandson of Francesco Crispi.
Other Crispi related with the statesman, living in Latin America, where the natural son of Francesco Crispi moved to live, driven by his father embarrassed by his conduct unbecoming, at the time of the scandal of the Bank of Italy, which among other things tells Sebastiano Vassalli narrative form in his novel "The Swan" (to read the review at that time published in "The index" click here).
In any case, "Crispi" in Italy are really Pochini: just a few hundred, scattered in small groups in almost all the national territory, except - it would seem - of Puglia and a few other regions.
remains, however, certain that my family is of Albanian origin and derives from that nucleus of Albanians, immigrants (as they say today) who arrived in Italy to escape alla'avanzata of the Ottoman Empire, spreading first in southern Italy (Adriatic and Ionian side) and then in certain parts of Sicily, which gave rise to some countries of "ethnicity" pure ex-MOVO were built (as, for example, Piana degli Albanesi) and others to a mixed composition (as, indeed, was and is Palazzo Adriano).
But we tell in more detail in a later post.
As regards the meaning of the surname, my father always raised me - probably - on the basis of knowledge handed down to family, but not supported by concrete language basics, that "Crispi" in Albanian it means "head of house."
On this point I would like to request an in-depth, but this field is stingy with information internet because almost all investigations on the origin of family names are available for a fee.
But to dissolve these doubts make, sooner or later, a search in the library or in the "Dictionary of Italian surnames."
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