The House of Sorgo (in Italian) or Sorkočević (in Croatian) was the name of a noble family of the Republic of Ragusa.
Known as de Sorgo, Surgo, Sorco and Surco in Italian, their name is derived from sorghum.
[1] According to the Annals, the Sorgo was a grain-trading and ship-owning family who immigrated from Albania via Kotor in 1272, and were ennobled in 1292 after bringing sorghum during a famine.
[1] They hailed from the Cape of Rodon (di Redoni d' Albania antichi), according to a later entry in the Annals.
[3] In 1527, Vlaho Sorgo, a patrician in Venice, recruited Jacobus Rizo as a doctor against the plague.