d'Afflitto Pelliccia family

Noble family from Tropea, commissioners of the statue of the Immaculate Conception in San Francesco d'Assisi

The d'Afflitto Pelliccia family appears on the list of Tropean noble families in 1567. The Pelliccia family appears to be present in the city's Sedile magnum  as early as 1508. They probably moved to Tropea from Nicotera, where they had lived centuries earlier, and even had a noble chapel, in the church of San Francesco. A branch of the family is also known to have settled in Aversa. From the second half of the sixteenth century the noble Cesare, son of Laura d'Afflitto and Mario Pelliccia, was adopted by his maternal uncle, the archdeacon Melchiorre, obtaining permission to bear his surname. Cesare's descendants therefore kept the surname of Afflitto, while the Pelliccia line continued through his brothers. In 1591 Cesare and Laura had the statue of the Immaculate Conception placed on the main altar of the church of San Francesco d'Assisi in Tropea.