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Chapter IV

Patarino’s Comune Natale of Castellaneta

Storia del Cognome Patarino

Patarino’s in Southern Italy

In the middle ages, southern Italy was perceived by many Europeans as a sort of cultural wasteland with cities inhabited by masses of poor, lazy, half-savages. Even the upper classes were generally seen as a boorish lot with tasteless preferences and little refinement. Few cities other than Naples were ever visited. The countryside was overrun by “savage” brigands and peasants who lived in conditions far worse

than anywhere else in Europe. Many Europeans even refused to acknowledge that southern Italy was part of Europe (American Institute of Southern Italian Studies). *Puglia Region Commune of Castellaneta

Calabria Region

*The Puglia region of Italy was considered by National Geographic Magizine (11/21/13) as a 2014 Best of the World’s 20 Destinations.

By the year 1482, families using the surname Patarino are known to have been living in the Southern Italy regions of Puglia and Calabria. Our Patarino family emigrated from the region of Puglia to the Unites States between 1906 and 1912 after their ancestors had lived in the commune of Castellaneta for hundreds of years. Castellaneta therefore is considered our family’s commune natale or native town. In 2011, according to cognomix.it, there was approximately 64 people with the surname of Patarino living in Italy with the highest concentration of 14 Patarino’s living in Castellaneta. To understand our family history, we must be more familiar with the Commune of Castellaneta.

By Giles Michael Patarino 02-2017 Chapter IV, Page 53



Commune di Castellaneta

The Comune of Castellaneta is located in the province of Taranto and the region of Puglia and is located in the heart of the Ravine Regional Park (Parco Regionale delle Gravine). The commune is 245 meters above sea level, has a population over 17,000 (2011), and during the Middle Ages had a population of approximately 4,000 people. The old town of Castellaneta stands on the precipitous edges of a ravine that is 145 meters deep and 350 meters wide. The ravine is one of the most magnificent Apulian ravines in Italy; formed by flood waters one million years ago, it has foot paths which meander at breathtaking heights. Its obvious defensive value explains why the houses of the old town were massed on the ravine’s edge, where they were well protected in ancient times. At the bottom of the ravine is the Lato River, which flows to the Ionian Sea ten miles away. (visit prolococastellaneta.it and commune.castellaneta.ta.it)

Lato River* *Castellaneta* Ravine or Gravina*

http://www.comune.castellaneta.ta.it/


Castellaneta Historical Information

(1) Pope Alexander II, the leader of the patarino movement in 1045, established the diocese of Castellaneta in 1080. (2) It is theorized the origin of the town name was in the 9th Century, where the inhabitants joined in a Castellum Unitum or United Castle on the edges of the ravine to protect the community from Saracens. (3) Castellaneta was conquered by the Normans in 1064 who then built the Norman Castle, which is known as the Palazzo Baronale. (4) In 1503, after the town put up a heroic defense against a French siege (known historically as Il Sacco di Castellaneta), the Spanish King, Ferdinand the Catholic (Ferdinando II of Aragona) who also became King of Naples in 1504, attributed the defeat of the French to the town’s Noblemen and invested the town with the title of Fidelissima Civitas (most loyal town). (5) Castellaneta was the birthplace of the silent movie star and Latin sex symbol, Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), who was born Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antoguolla. He immigrated to the United States in 1913 when he was 18 years old. His big break came in 1920 when he first played a Latin lover in the Hollywood movie, “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”.

Rudolph Valentino Memorial Old town area of Castellaneta

Historical old town sits on the precipitous edges of the Ravine Historical Old Town



Pictured above in the immediate foreground is the roof of Chisea San Domenico or Church of St. Domenico

Pictured above in the foreground is the Palazzo di Baronale or the Baron’s Place on the edge of the Gravina

Pictured above is Castellaneta at the edge of the Gravina

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Castellaneta’s Historical Old Town

The old town area dates back to medieval times with narrow streets and alleys built to allow only one person to pass at a time, which helped prevent attacks inside the town. The town used to be surrounded by an imposing ring of thick walls and gates to restrict passage into the town, which were removed in 1841. The town and surrounding area contain many ancient churches reflecting the town’s importance. In the 11th Century, the town was the official seat of the Bishop of the Diocese of Castellaneta. The patron saints of Castellaneta are Santa Nicola and Santa Francesco. Below is an engraving of Castellaneta in 1702 by Giovan Battista Pacichelli, which identifies historical structures in and surrounding the old town area. (diocesicastellaneta.net)

Image Content: 1. Duomo2. Pal del Vescoco3. Pal del Barone4. S. Chiara5. S. Dom6. Piazza7. Seggio8. Riformati9. Cappuccini10. S. Michele11. S. M. del Pesco12. S. M. del Soccorso13. S. Lucia14. Mater Jesu Chrifti15. Porta Granda16. Porta Piccola

Image Content Translated: 1. Duomo di San Nicola or Cathedral of Saint Nicholas (13th Century)2. Palazzo di Vescovo or Bishops Place (18th Century)3. Palazzo di Baronale or Barons Place (9th Century)4. Church of Saint Chiara (13th Century)5. Church of Saint Domenico (18th Century)6. The Town Square7. Seat (could this be the seat of the Bishop?)8. Reformed Church9. Convent dei Cappuccino or former Capuchin Monastery10. Church of Saint Michael the Archangel (18th Century)11. Church of Saint Maria of Pesco12. Church of Saint Maria of Soccorso (13th Century)13. St. Lucia (this is a rock church in the ravine)14. Church of Mater Jesus Christ (17th Century)15. Large Gate into the Town16. Small Gate into the Town

Chiesa Convento St. Francesco



3-Barons Place-ancient castle home to the Norman Barons

2-Bishops Place-historical seat of the Bishops

1-Cathedral of St. Nicolas

Cathedral of St. Nicholas

Gianpaolo Patarino 2015 at the 15-Large Gate

5-Church of St. Domenico 4-Church of St. Chiara

Crypt at St. Michael 10-Church of St. Michael 11-St. Mary of Pesco



Historic Picture of Castellaneta from the 19th Century

Picture of the Old Town of Castellaneta on the Ravine





Picture of the ancient caves in the Ravine



Chisea San Domenico or Church of St. Domenico Narrow Alleyway in the old town

Old picture taken from the Gravina looking at the Palazzo di Baronale



Plaza in winter in Castellaneta, vivacastellaneta.it

Old town area of Castellaneta at the edge of the Gravina, vivacastellaneta.it

From the Gravina looking at the Palazzo di Baronale, vivacastellaneta.it



Natale a Castellaneta, a Christmas event from December 4 to January 6 in the old town area of Castellaneta with Christmas markets and street exhibitions, shopping, food, music and theatre; vivacastellaneta.it



Ravine Regional Park (Parco Regionale delle Gravine)

The Ravine Regional Park also known as the “Land of the Ravines” is a 988 acre sub-region in the Puglia region established December 20, 2005 and is spread across thirteen

communes. It is interposed with geological phenomenon characterized by blades and ravines which were carved by rainwater into the limestone rock over millions of years. The Gravina is the most majestic natural canyon landscape in Western Europe and includes archeological sites such as villages and churches carved into the stone from the Medieval, Hellenistic and Paleolithic ages. The old historical town of Castellaneta stands on the precipitous edges of the ravine, which is 145 meters deep and 350 meters wide at its location. The park was established to legally protect the areas historic landscape, cultural human settlements, agro-forestry, and the preservation of habitat, flora and fauna. The website Pereghegis.it includes detailed information of the ravines and offers tours of the area.



For more photos and information regarding the ravines and the history of this area, go to 1) Wikipedia.org/wiki/gravina (geologia); 2) Periegesis.it, “Journey through the history of the agricultural landscape of Taranto” (Viaggio nella storia del paesaggio agrario del tarantino); or 3) google “Parco Regionale delle Gravine”.

View from Castellaneta overlooking the Ravine

Map of the Park in the Province of Taranto

Castellaneta



The Patarino’s of Castellaneta When I was young man, I remember asking my father where our family immigrated from; his response was, “Taranto, Italy”, which I thought for many years was our family’s native town. So in 2005, when I started my genealogy research, I started researching Taranto, which is both a city and a province in the Puglia region. I soon learned that Italians prior to the early 20th Century did not identify themselves as citizens of the newly unified Italian nation (i.e. as “Italians”) but identified themselves as members of their local areas. Historically, Taranto was an important principality and military sea port, which explains why our ancestors thought of themselves as citizens of Taranto. After several months of research, I realized our family actually emigrated from the Commune of Castellaneta, which is located in the Taranto province of the Puglia region (37 miles from the Citi of Taranto). I then spent the next year trying to find links between our family and Castellaneta.

When I came across the Italian website, “maldarizzi.it/castellaneta.htm”, I realized I had found a registry with the critical links between our family in the United States and our Castellaneta ancestors. The website is managed by Riccardo Maldarizzi and it records some information on the people who lived in Castellaneta from the late 15th Century to the early 20th Century. In 2014, the registry included approximately 363 people (one-half being male) using the surname Patarino from 1498 to 1910. I was able to trace our ancestor Vincenzo Patarino, who emigrated from Castellaneta to the United States in 1912, back generation-to-generation to Nicola Francesco Patarino who was born in Castellaneta in 1728 (see the detailed generation-to-generation lineage in Chapter V).

Before 1700, the registry includes only minimal links to a person’s parents or children, which makes it difficult to research one’s generation-to-generation lineage. After reviewing the Patarino surname entries before 1700, I found several interesting names that I believe may link Nicola Francesco Patarino in 1728 back to a Patarino living in 1649. For now we can only speculate until Riccardo Maldarizzi completes his research in the next few years. If additional generation-to-generation information is uncovered in regards to our family, this research will be updated to establish a new progenitor.

Images of the Old Town Area of Castellaneta


http://www.castellaneta.altervista.org/


Did the Castellaneta Patarino’s come from Northern Italy?

Since the root of a surname can provide historical information on where a surname originated, what can we decipher from the root of the word “patarino” to determine where Patarino families throughout Italy originated from? In Chapter VI, it is noted the surname Patarino in 2011 was being used by approximately 64 people in Italy and was mostly concentrated in the regions of Puglia (20), Piemonte (17) and Calabria (8) (Cognomix.it). As we know from Chapter III, the Piemonte region in northern Italy was home to Patarino families starting in 1195 (there is no evidence of Patarino’s living in southern Italy prior to the 15th Century). In 2011, the majority of Patarino’s in Puglia lived in the commune of Castellaneta (14 of 20; the others lived within a few miles) and in Calabria, living in the commune of Roccabernarda (6 of 7). With Patarino’s being mostly concentrated in these two communes in southern Italy, it’s probable that these two communes were each the location of a Patarino family who migrated from northern Italy.

As we learned in Chapter II, the root of the word, “patarino” is of the Milan dialect (northern Italy) and was used to identify Milan’s “patarino movement” in the 11th Century. In the 13th and 14th Centuries, the word “patarino” was amended to describe certain people as religious heretics when they aspired to more than what the Roman Catholic Church offered at the time. These heretics or “patarino’s” were found throughout northern Italy but especially in the Piemonte, Milano and Verona areas (see Chapter II). Based upon these facts, it’s probable that the first families using the surname Patarino lived in northern Italy. Having the surname Patarino would not have been a popular thing to do in the Middle Ages with the Roman Catholic Church dominating most aspects of one’s life and torturing and killing heretics during the Inquisition.

A study conducted by the dialectology linguistic G. Rohlfs in the 1920’s and 1930’s, showed Italian dialects spoken in the area of the Tyrrhenian hinterland between the regions Basilicata and Calabria (southern Italy) have very little to do with other southern Italy dialects but rather stem from Gallo-Italic dialects spoken in Northern Italy. Rohlfs’ thesis assumed that starting in the 12th Century, entire colonies fled from northern Italy to southern Italy due to the persecution of heretics in northern Italy and they brought along with them their Gallo-Italic dialect. It’s noted by Rohlfs that this could explain the surnames Patarino and Patara in the Calabria region (biblioteche2.comune.parma.it/lasagni/Ai-am). In Chapter III, Giovanni Facio Patarino from 1474 lived in the Calabria region and probably was the ancestor of many Patarino’s currently living in the commune of Roccabernarda.

Research. Based on this information, it’s more than likely that the people and families labeled as patarinos during the Middle Ages migrated to Castellaneta from northern Italy to escape persecution and war. These so-called patarinos or heretics then continued to use the label patarino as a surname. Were any of these families that migrated related to the noble Patarino family from Chapter III in the Piemonte region? When did our Patarino family settle in Castellaneta? More research is needed to answer these questions.


http://www.biblioteche2.comune.parma.it/lasagni/Ai-am.htm


Masseria Patarino, Castellaneta Castellaneta * *Masseria Patarino

A Masseria was a large latifondi or agricultural estate between the 16th and 19th Centuries for farming (olive oil, wine, produce, and livestock) and usually included a large fortified country home. These Masseria were mainly located in Sicily and the Puglia region (especially in the Puglia countryside of Taranto, Brindisi and Lecce, which included over one hundred masseria). Today, the protection and preservation of historic masseria buildings have

resulted in some abandoned masseria being refurbished and used as modern bed & breakfasts, hotels and cultural tourist attractions. In medieval times, the estate farm was an expression of a geo-economic organization which supplied income to the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, similar to a feudal estate. In the 16th and 17th Centuries, vast unpopulated and uncultivated areas in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were licensed by Spanish rulers to nobles and agrarian lords for re-population and colonization for the purpose of providing agricultural grains to Spain; the result was the birth of the masseria. (Wikipedia.org; about.com) The map pictured above is an 18th Century map of the masseria in Taranto (Pereghegis.it).

Masseria Patarino Grande The typical masseria country home included fortified buildings with few perimeter openings mostly facing inward to an enclosed courtyard to protect the agrarian lordship’s family from intruders and attack by bandits and pirates. One or more upper floors were sometimes used by the master’s family for living residences while the lower floors were used by the peasants for living, which also included storage rooms, work areas, stables for horses and mules, and breeding areas for chickens, rabbits and birds. (Wikipedia.org)

In the Relazione generale - schede delle azioni di gestione - Provincia di Taranto, 2008 or the General Report, Board of Management Actions, Province of Taranto, Management Plan of the Ionian Arc of Ravines, section 2.14.1 Castellaneta, some of Castellaneta’s most significant masseria in terms of architectural and cultural history are listed: “Masseria Minerva, Masseria Del Vecchio Nuova, Masseria Patarino, Masseria San Domenico alle Matino, Masseria Del Porto, Masseria Giacoia, and Masseria Casone” (provincial.taranto.it).

Masseria Minerva Masseria San Domenico alle Matino Masseria Del Vecchio Nuova

Currently a hotel and spa



The “Masseria Patarino” is more specifically mentioned on page 78 of the Management Plan of the Ionian Arc of Ravines, which is translated as follows:

Masseria Patarino. Located 36 meters above sea level and south of Castellaneta in the vicinity of the Lama [River]. The masseria is structured into a single body in an open courtyard which is spread over two floors. .

This management plan includes geological cartography maps of the area, which identify the location of many masserias.

Map “Pianodi Gestione de SIC-ZPS Area delle Gravine”

Boundary of the Commune of Castellaneta (grey lines) *

Map “31_ALL_10_Pianificazione Regionale_R5”

*The red hatchedArea 5 on themap is the areawhere theMasseriaPatarino islocated

*Castellaneta

*MasseriaPatarino -see next mapfor enlargement

Lama River* *Lato River (flows from the Castellaneta Ravine)



Map “14_ALL_5_7 Carta Habitat_Settorre 5_R5” (Enlargement of Maps above)

*MasseriaPatarinoGrande (Large)

*MasseriaPatarinoPiccolo (Small)

*Lato River

Hills (shaded areas)*

The Masseria Patarino can be found on Google Maps at 40º32’35.90” N, 16º56’57.34” E:

*Castellaneta

*MasseriaPatarino

The Masseria Patarino is located 4 miles from the Ionian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto, 6 miles from the Commune of Castellaneta, and 1.5 miles from the confluence of the Lato and Lama rivers, which empty into the Ionian Sea. There are two Masseria estate homes that sit atop a hill that is 36 meters (118 feet) above sea level enabling one to see the whole agricultural area for miles. These masseria estate homes were fortified to protect its noble families from North African pirates who raided the Mediterranean Sea coasts during the 17th and 18th Centuries.

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Masseria Grande

Masseria Piccolo



Map “596_News_TavAFV3_Azienda Faunistico_Veratoria San Mama”

The Masseria Patarino estate homes also appear on the Wildlife Hunting Company’s cartography maps. Note the images below are enlargements of the map to the right. These maps indicate the exact location of the estate structures that are also on Google Maps.

*Masseria structures

Masseria Patarino Piccolo Masseria Patarino Grande

Masseria Piccolo

Masseria Grande



In the Italian book, Masserie e Campagne a Castellaneta or Farms in Rural Castellaneta by Ludovico, Antonio, 1998, the Masseria Patarino is listed several times and Cataldo Patarino and Michelangelo Patarino are identified as the owners of the Masseria in the territory of Castellaneta in the early 19th Century. The 211 page book discusses the history of Castellaneta masseria’s and rural county farms and includes maps, pictures and information of these historic estates. A 1922 map on page 64 shows the approximately 14,000 acres in the area of Castellaneta that was owned by the Giovinazzi family in the early 19th Century. The name “Patarino” is indicated on land along the Lato River, which is the same location as in previous maps for the Masseria Patarino. (This book is part of G. M. Patarino’s collection)

The area of the Masseria Patarino is approximately 250 acres.

Note how the current roads and fields still follow the outline of the Masseria Patarino.



Masseria Patarino Grande

The Masserie e Campagne a Castellaneta has a chapter on historic Masseria’s located south of Castellaneta (page 131), which are characterized by the agricultural landscape of the Lama and Lato rivers. The Masseria Patarino Grande is included on Page 172 as follows.

Location: -Rene of Mezzo Architectural Classification: -Farmhouse with merging open volumes Historical Elements: -Catasto Muratiano 1815 (land registry) -Home in the St. Bartolomeo District -Land: Thickets – 2.4 tomoli

Grassy – 14.1 tomoli Ordinary Arable – 9 tomoli Groves – 6 tomoli (or 5.9 acres)

*Tomoli and Stoppello are ancient local units ofmeasurement. Land was measured in tomoli; onetomoli is equal to approximately 0.9 acre.



The Masseria Patarino Grande estate included a 2-story main building for living and several support buildings for crops and animals and maybe sleeping quarters for field workers. The main building would have served as the home of the Patarino famiglia. Note the rectangle area in the bottom left of the Google Maps picture could be fenced cemetary for the family.

Masseria Grande *

The Masseria Patarino Grande is accessed from Strada Provinciale 13 and down a private road just past the water pump station pictured above (Google Maps Street View 2014; the yellow star indicates the location of the picture).

Road SP 13 *



The Court of Taranto in July 2016, listed the Masseria Patarino Grande for sale in a judicial bankrupsy auction by the creditor Banca Delle Nuova Terra S.P.A. The real estate was identified as a rural agricultural estate in Castellaneta, known as the Patarino Masseria, which included 302,965.00 squate meters or 74.86 acres of land and 11,323 sf of buildings of ancient workmanship. The estimated value was listed as 770,000 Euro or $845,000. The real estate listed by Aste Guidiziarie included pictures, floor plans and detailed information regarding the Masseria. The entire property is currently in a state of disrepair. The Masseria Patarino Grande structures include the following:

A. Main Building B. Piggery C. Oven and Henhouse D. Stable & Tool Shed

Main entry road and gate to the Masseria Vineyards (Castellaneta can be seen in the upper left)

Main Building (front view from east) Main Building (front view from west)



Corpo Principale or Main Building

The two story main building is located in a dominant position with respect to the land with views of the sea to the south and Castellaneta to the north. The building has connection to the electrical utility but does not have sewer, water nor gas connections. The water supply is from a well on the property.

The 6,275 sf two-story building includes a first floor of 3,003 sf with five rooms (A1, A2, B1, B2 and B3) and an additional storage room (C) leading to a small basement. The second floor of 1,421 sf consists of a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and four bedrooms. The second floor terrace of 1,647 sf includes two additional rooms for storage. The second floor living quarters is accessed by external stairways on the front and rear of the building. The ceilings are vaulted and are 10 ft to 13 ft high. The flooring is concrete and the walls are a plastered load-bearing tufo masonry (a volcanic rock local to Puglia). The exterior terrace is paved with chianche corigliano, a rustic antique stone typical in Puglia masseria. The overall condition of the estate home is poor.

Main Building Second Floor Terrace Main Building East side



The first floor of the Masseria is being used as a garage and storage rooms, while the second floor is used for the living quarters (kitchen, dining, and bedrooms). During the 18th Century, the Noble’s family would have lived on the upper floor which was more secure from pirates and bandits while servants lived on the first floor.

First Floor – Area A1 (Garage)

First Floor – Area B3 First Floor – Area C

Second Floor – Dining Room First Floor – Area B1



Porcilaia or Piggery

The 839 sf one-story piggery building is a rectangular shape about 255 ft long and 12 ft high. The walls are a load-bearing tufo masonry with a barrel vault roof. The building is in a state of neglect.

Piggery to east of the Main Building Piggery Interior with Barrel Roof

Forno e Pollaio or Oven and Chicken Coop

The 452 sf one-story building includes an outdoor wood fired oven for cooking and baking and an adjacent enclosed chicken coop with an 8 ft high corrugated metal roof.

Outdoor Oven to north of Main Building Chicken Coop



Stalla e Ricovero Attrezzi or Stable and Tool Shed

The 2,561 sf one-story stable building is a rectangular shape and is about 95 ft from the main building. The walls are a load-bearing tufo masonry with a single pitched roof over a wood structure about 13 ft high. Adjacent to the stable is a 570 sf tool shed. The buildings are in fairly good condition.

Stable as seen from Main Building Tool Shed adjacent to Stable

Looking north at Stable (left) and Main Building (right); could that be a graveyard in the foreground below Stable?



Surrounding Agricultural and Arable Land

The land to the north is substantially flat and includes an orange orchard, vineyards (with anti-hail covers), olive groves, and other crops. The land to the south descends to the Lama River to a series of lower level terrain with different vegetation. The agricultural and arable land is summarized as followed: vineyards 8.60 acres, olive groves 7.88 acres, orange orchards 1.02 acres, arable land 51.68 acres, and pasture 3.43 acres. The agricultural portion of the Masseria was valued at 448,666 Euro or $492,410.

Olive Tree Grove Orange Tree Orchard

Vineyard Vineyard

Arable Land to the South Land to the South



Masseria Patarino Piccolo

No information or picture of the Masseria Patarino Piccolo is included in the Masserie e Campagne a Castellaneta. Using the Google Map measurement tools, the Masseria Piccolo’s first floor appears to be approximately 5,700 sf. It is located a one-quarter mile from the Masseria Patarino Grande. The main building is also surrounded by support buildings probably used for the storage of crops and animals.

* Masseria Picolo

The Masseria Patarino Picolo is accessed directly from Strada Provinciale 13 and down a private road (Google Maps Street View 2014; the yellow star indicates the location of the picture). Road SP 13 *




Google World Images surrounding the Masseria Patarino

Google Image #3* *Masseria Patarino (outlined in white)

*Google Image #1

*Google Image #2

Google Image #4* Lato River*

Google Image #1 – looking north towards the Masseria hill (0.8 miles)

Google Image #2 - looking northwest to the Masseria Patarino; the image is taken near the Med Wind Power solar farm (see next page); (1.5 miles)

Google Image #3 – looking east toward the hill that the Masseria Patarino buildings are located (1 mile)*

Google Image #4 - looking north-east toward the Masseria from a country road (1.8 miles)


The Difesa delle Rene di Mezzo

The Masseria Patarino is located in an area known as the Difesa delle Rene di Mezzo, which was a former feudal state property identified in a deed dated November 1, 1822. The deed held that the property was well defined within the following boundaries: north to the old road Palagiano-Ginosa, east to the land owned by signor Giovinazzi (the Masseria San Mama and the Masseria Patarino), south to the edges of the estate Cavallaro and the Masseria Chiulli (all owned by signor Giovinazzi), and west to the Masseria D’Anela and Masseria Rizzi (property of signor Giovanizzi). The extent of the Rene di Mezzo was a total of 36 ½ carra (approx. 2,200 acres), including 12 carra of arable land and 24 ½ carra of vegetables. The Rene di Mezzo was divided in three parts, first, a number of various settlers; second, 4 carra and 19 versure (approximately 300 acres) were bought by the Picaro, Patarino and Rizzi families; and third, 19 carra and 10 versure were granted in 1822 in a lease to the Giovanizzi family by the Executive Board of Tavoliere, the authority responsible for land management subject to the regime of the former Dogana of Foggia. (Masserie e Campagne a Castellaneta)



Masseria Proprietario

A proprietario was considered a gentleman land owner which was different from an agrioltore or peasant land owner; a distinction created after feudalism was abolished in 1806.

The Masserie e Campagne a Castellaneta identifies Cataldo Patarino and Michelangelo Patarino as proprietario of the Masseria Patarino in the 19th Century. The Maldarizzi.it website, lists Castellaneta families since the 15th Century, and in 1759, Cataldo Patarino (1759-1826) is identified as being a masseria proprietario and several of his descendants in the 19th Century are listed as masseria proprietario.

In Chapter V, Cataldo Patarino is listed as a child of our current progenitor Nicola Francesco Patarino (1728-1802). Therefore, at a minimum, we can say the Masseria Patarino was owned by cousins of our family. How did Cataldo Patarino obtain the masseria? Did he inherit it from his father Nicola Francesco Patarino? More research is needed to answer these questions.

The coat-of-arms indicated below (from www.perieghesis.it) was found on a fortified farm in the Taranto province, which is where the Commune of Castellaneta is located. The perieghesis.it website notes the following in connection with this coat of arms, “the identification of agrarian nobility is expressed symbolically by the frequent presence of coat of arms within the masseria farms.”

Could we possibly find our Patarino coat of arms stamped in the walls of one of the Patarino Masseria estate structures? When we apply similar structure and color to our Castellaneta Patarino coat of arms, notice the similarities between the two images. More research is needed and definitely a trip to Italy to visit the Masseria Patarino Grande and Piccolo.

perieghesis.it The Patarino coat of arms is superimposed on a similar background


http://www.perieghesis.it/


The Lato River

These Google images were taken at the mouth of the Lato River and on the Beach along the Ionian Sea. The Masseria Patarino is located four miles from this location. At the mouth to the Lato River stands the ancient Torre Lato or the Lato Tower (bottom right picture from www.mondimedievali.net), which was built about 1570 at the bend in the Lato river and was used to sight ships for defense of the coast from Saracen and pirate raids.

Progetto Masseria Patarino

In December 2010, the company Med Wind Power finished construction of a 2 Megawatt solar farm located on what is labeled the “Masseria Patarino”, located 1.8 miles southeast of the Masseria Patarino. This solar project or progetto is identified on the company’s website.



Chapter End Notes The Commune of Castellaneta is our family’s commune natale. Our family is known to have lived there for almost 300 years if not longer. Castellaneta has an interesting and old history going back thousands of years.

When did our Patarino family migrate to Castellaneta and why? Did a weathy Patarino family relocate from the Piemonte region in northern Italy in the 17th century and purchase land for the Masseria Patarino?

The Il Saco di Castellaneta in 1503 led to Ferdinando II of Aragona to label the town, Fidelissima Civitas or most loyal town. Was Ferdinando II of Aragona the person referenced at the beginning of our Family Historical Document as, “Federico II of D’Aracona”? If this document is referencing our southern Italy family only, then this could make sense. If the document is referencing the northern Patarino family in the Piemonte region as expored in Chapter III, then it may not make sense. More research is needed in Castellaneta to find the historical connection of when our family made Castellaneta its native town.


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