The name does not come from the burdock, as used to be said: that would have given Lappeto. It comes instead from the Roman estate of one Appius — Appianum — which in the Middle Ages, with the article in front of it, became lo Appiano, lo Appano, l'Appano and at last Lappano: the article stuck to the name and never came off again.
Lappano was a royal casale: it depended on the king alone and never had a baron. In 1596 and in 1631 the casali of Cosenza paid enormous sums to stay in the royal demesne, but in 1644 the Crown, short of money, sold them to the Grand Duke of Tuscany all the same; they got free three years later, with the revolt of Celico.
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