In Italy, names for people and places spring from and call back to the country’s long and complicated past. Some given names — Adriano, Giulia, Claudio — can be traced back to Ancient Rome: Hadrian, Julia, Claudius. Other names come from saints: Paolo, from Paul; Giuseppe, from Joseph. (Some are both religious as well as Roman: Marco/Marcus/Mark.)
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