Articles

All published articles.

• Introduction: What Connects One Sorio to Another

  The beginning of the Sorio.world project: how a chance detour by car past a road sign bearing my own surname sparked a research into the word Sorio, from its historical origins to its present-day distribution.

• Wilson Sorio: A Brazilian striker from the Pacific to the Po, 1957–1959

  The story of Wilson Sorio, a Brazilian footballer of Venetian descent who played in Italy's Serie A for Paolo Mazza's SPAL in the late 1950s.

• Leandro Sorio: A Brescian anarchist in the vice of the twentieth century, 1899–1975

  The story of Leandro Sorio, anarchist militant arrested as accomplice to the 1926 attempt on Mussolini's life, sentenced to twenty years in prison and later active in the Resistance.

• Why there are more Sorios in the Philippines than in Italy

  The curious colonial story behind the global spread of the Venetian surname Sorio in the Philippines, exploring the impact of the Clavería decree of 1849.