__NOTOC__ Carotta (engl. "red house", from venet. ''ca’'' and OIt. ''rotto'') is an Italian surname. ''Carotta'', its plural form ''Carotte'', and the variant ''Casarotta'' are also rare toponyms, especially of

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

and homesteads in northern Italy, for example Fornace Carotta (

Fiesso Umbertiano Fiesso Umbertiano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about southwest of Rovigo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,207 and an area of .All dem ...

), Carotta (near Quinzano,

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...

), and Casarotta (

Loro Ciuffenna Loro Ciuffenna is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southeast of Florence and about northwest of Arezzo. Loro Ciuffenna borders the following municipalities: Castel Focognano, ...

), but also of regions like Carotte (

Pedemonte Pedemonte is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its ...

). Notable people with the surname Carotta include: * Gioacchino Carotta (d. 23 April 1556), Italian ''

maestro di cappella (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

'' and vocalist in the

Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel (; la, Sacellum Sixtinum; it, Cappella Sistina ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope in Vatican City. Originally known as the ''Cappella Magna'' ('Great Chapel'), the chapel takes its nam ...

, s.v. "Carotta Gioacchino". *

Francesco Carotta Francesco Carotta (born 1946 in Veneto, Italy) is an Italian writer who developed a theory that the historical Jesus was based on the life of Julius Caesar, that the Gospels were a rewriting of Roman historical sources, and that Christianity deve ...

(b. 1946), Italian writer * Michael Carotta, American author on religion and former director at the NCEA

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