Maria Masala

Maria Masala married Girolamo Ruffinu in Nule in 1790. The marriage certificate, pictured at right, appears to give her name as "Maria Masala Spanu," and describes her as "filiam conjugam... solutam" (?).

The text of the document reads:

pro matrimonio contrahendo inter Hieronymum Rufino in oppido Benetuti commorantem filium Conjugorum Dominici Ruffino, et Mariae Piana Civitatis Sassaris, viduum, prout ex Licteris testimonialibus propri Parrochi hic insertis apparet, et Mariam Massala Ispanu, filiam Conjugorum Joannis Angeli Masala, et Josephae Ispanu hujus oppidi solutam, nulloque impedimento detecto, et idoneis habitis in doctrina christiana

It names her parents as "Ioannes Angeli Masala" (Giovanni Masala) and "Iosepha Ispanu" (Giuseppa Spanu) and describes them as "oppidi" (with Nule implied?), presumably meaning "of the town of Nule."