360 Global PIOLI Family Members

PIOLI Family History

Recorded as Piola, Pioli and Piolli, this is a famous Italian surname. It is generally considered to be one of a large group that derive their name from botany specifically plants and herbs, those most associated with medicine, or to be precise the growing of such for the production of medicine. Italian surnames are the most difficult of all European surnames to research with accuracy. Italy did not become a unified state until after Garibaldi's famous march on Rome in 1860. Until then it had been a loose confederation of about twelve statelets, some like Venice very rich, but mostly poor and impoverished.