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Online edition of the Confessions here, and there is a little bit of discussion of origins in the first note of all, which points out that his, and his mother's name, are both vanishingly rare in Roman Africa, which may suggest either, as the commentator says, "aristocratic pretensions" or, as I suspect, Italian descent. But again, names usually come from mothers; who was the father, and why were they in Africa?

There's also an old English translation of the Confessions here. That gives you approximately all the source material yourself, so I'm going to leave this now...