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Nazzareno
Nazzareno Nazzareno carries one of the most directly Christological given names in the Italian tradition — a name that places its bearer in explicit relation to the figure of Jesus the Nazarene. Used mainly in older Italian rural and working-class Catholic culture, it projects a deep-rooted religious identity and a certain old-world piety found in the family sagas and neorealist fiction of central and southern Italy.
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