 A document dated 982 mentions Pietro, Giovanni and other inhabitants of the farmhouse who make arrangements on a land "posito in Domucella ubi furche vocatur".Another deed of donation of 1037 speaks of a "Caputo de loco Democella, finibus Lauri", which grants the church of S. Maria di Spelonca part of its properties in the Scoropeta district.The small village was already in possession of a church dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie in 1093, the year in which the same building was donated by the Saxon bishop to the Benedictine Fathers of S. Lorenzo d'Aversa.