Maraholt

This name is of Germanic origin, composed of two elements: “*marko-” (border, borderland) plus “*waldaʐ” (ruler, mighty one, powerful one). In turn, the name means “one who is strong in defending the border or its land.” 1) Coppo di Marcovaldo (~1225–1276) was a Florentine painter active in the middle of the thirteenth century, whose fusion of both the Italian and Byzantine styles had a significant influence on generations of Italian artists. 2) Marcovaldo is a collection of 20 short stories written by Italo Calvino. It was initially published, in 1963, as “Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città” (Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City), but the first stories were written in the early 1950s.