 villa dei Coelia, noble family of Roman landowners whose presence is attested in the imperial age in Pompeii from Nola).The locality is mentioned in a 15th-century writing by Ambrogio Leone with the name of Democella.The first mention of the village in the Middle Ages is in a notarial deed of 979, where it is stated that the Lombard prince Pandolfo donated to Martino, abbot of S. Maria di Spelonca, everything he owned in Domicella.