Articles

All published articles.

• Ileana Chiappini di Sorio, the Art Scholar

  A historian of Venetian art, official of the Museo Correr and lecturer at Ca' Foscari, she collected more than five hundred antique fans. And she carries the name Sorio as the predicate of a compound surname.

• Via Sorio in Padua: The Name on the Street Sign

  In Padua's Brentella district, a street carries the name Sorio. Not for a family, but for a battle: the one of 8 April 1848, where the students of Padua died.

• 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.