Yes, Cola is the nickname for Nicola (which is the same as Nicolo').
Xara = Xiara = Sciara
X can be used to mean Sc or Sci, such as how Sciacca used to be written Xacca.

Cari usually is written with an accent mark over the i.

Is this on foglio 299? Child of Pietro Lauria and Margarita Campisciano?

The date is 13 Jun 1707. However, the child is a boy, named Giovanni Battista Calogero

The Giuseppe Catalano in the next record is the brother of the Vito Catalano on the previous page

This is what it says:
"Vitu Catalanu di Cesaro e m.ca cat.no con cat.na fa. di Petru et Ant.lla roccaforti di q.a te.ra schetti"
As usual for this time period it looks like a cross between Latin and Italian/Sicilian.


Translated, it is:
Vito Catalano of Cesare and M.ca [this is like M.co, so maybe ...

I discussed M.co on the fb genealogy group before. I was thinking Marco but then Julie Fatta pointed out that it might be short for Minico, which is a nickname for Domenico common in early-17th-c. records in Sambuca. It would be nice to find a marriage record in Sambuca for one of these M.co people ...

the date of the marriage in the next 2 marriage records was the 29th, but church marriage records are not always in chronological order. the 3rd marriage banns in the next 2 records were published on 21 Aug and 28 Aug, respectively

The mother is Margarita Giacone.

Sebastiano son of Filippo Gulotta and "Corsia" Cari. Porsia is a real name, but not AFAIK Corsia, but that is what it looks like.

"fu" just means "was." He was baptized.

What you see after the the groom's mother's name is "di questa terra," abbreviated.

The parents of Chiara Giacone [Chiara is Italian for Clara] are Cosimo Giacone and Francesca Catalano. They married in Sambuca in 1630. Their marriage record is the last record on f. 75 verso.

The 3rd marriage bann was announced on 21 Aug 1661 so the marriage could not have been earlier than that. How much later the marriage actually occurred can not be determined.

The wife of Giacomo Russo and mother of Michele and Angela was named Caterina Turano. She was my 8th GGM. Michele Russo and Grazia Cannova were my 7th great-grandparents.

It doesn't say Calogera or quondam in this record.

"Gratiella [Gaziella in Italian] parvula figlia del s.r [signor] Francesco et la s.ra [signora] Angila Calafato giugali..."

Even in 1652 Francesco was still alive. The use of parvula ("very small") is strange here. A newborn would always be "very ...

the mother's surname in Grazia's marriage record is Angela Carnemulla. The name Calogera does not appear. I'll have to take a look at what appears in the baptismal record tomorrow

I have 4 marriage records for the children of Francresco Calafato and Angela Carnemolla. In none does the name Calogera ...

Angela Carnemolla (spelled here as Carnemulla)
btw, the bride's name here is Grazia, not Graziella
her husband is Leonardo Gulotta, spelled here as Glotta
I'm not aware of any other husband for Angela other than Francesco Calafato