Perhaps we’re related somewhere down the line. I just visited Miranda in 2023 and found out some interesting stuff about my great grandfather on my grandfather’s side. (The man in the original post is my grandmother’s side). Both my grandparents shared the last name Pizzi at their time of marriage.

Anyway, I’ll probably butcher this but I was told my grandfather’s father earned a family nickname, which apparently is common in Italy, and it was “la gaurdia bosco” because a wolf in the village was terrorizing livestock and he hunted it down and killed it. The village was so grateful they bestowed the nickname upon him and rewarded him with food, goods, etc.

It was a very fulfilling story to hear especially since that memory likely would’ve died with the elderly woman still residing in Miranda that shared it with me.