Abbadessa

Alias: Abbatessa

Blazon: Per bend or and gules

Origin: Florence, migrated in Sicily under Frederick III

Seat: Messina

Notable people: 

• Giovanni Abbadessa, Lieutenant and Governor of the Camera Reginale
• Paolo Abbadessa (1520-1578), a poet of the second half of the 16th century, who translated H0mer's Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Bibliography: 

• Galluppi 1881, p. 
• Mongitore 1707-1714, vol. II, p. 119
• Mugnos 1680, p. 332
• Palizzolo Gravina 1871, p. 48
• Mango 1912, s.v. "Abbadessa"