Articles

All published articles.

• Historical Investigation of the Sorio Family: Genealogy and Attestations

  Overview of documented attestations of the Sorio family from the 15th to the 19th century: from 15th-century Vicentine contracts to the 20th-century diaspora, including the heraldic coat of arms and notable figures.

• The Locality of Sorio in Gambellara: Origins, History and Territory

  A journey to the origins of the locality of Sorio, a hamlet of Gambellara in the province of Vicenza: from the church of San Giorgio to the Garganega vineyards, from the medieval place name to Villa Sorio.

• The Origin of the Sorio Surname: From Sanctus Georgius to Sorio

  Reconstructing the origin of the Sorio surname through etymological, phonetic, and toponomastic analysis: from the cult of Saint George in the Venetian countryside to the formation of a hereditary surname.

• Giuseppe Sorio (1663–1742): a Vicentine traveller on the threshold of the Enlightenment

  The life, travels, and writings of Giuseppe Sorio, a Vicentine traveller in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, precursor of Enlightenment cultural relativism.