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Public and private memoirs indicate the family descended from the now extinct Noble house Aliprandi of Milan, said before, as we have in an inscription of 1131, Liprando, whose primitive weapon, however, as the surname once carried. Before the middle of the nineteenth century, according to some memoirs, and for others not indicative evidence, in the twelfth century perhaps at the time of the destruction of Milan made by Im. Federico Barbarossa, she split from her stump, and transplanted to Clusone in the Bergamasco, was later called Fanzago, Fanzaga, Fansaga and de Fanzaghi, and rarely Franzaga and Dei Fanzalei, and followed the Guelph party. In 1445 it belonged to Verona, and was also ascribed to its illustrious citizenship, conferred on it by decree of the Nob. Council on April 23, 1445. Not too many years later by inheritance made by the canon and Count Palatine Bartolommeo C., he assumed his surname and his noble coat of arms, which bears on the shield either alone or united, and also quartered with the ancient weapon Aliprandi o Fanzago, which is the same, with its crests. It is very probable, not to say certain, that the surname Fanzago came to this branch of the Aliprandi in the decimoterzo century from one of this blood named Fanzago; who in 1309 had a son perhaps in adulthood named Lodoferimo or Cadoferino; and in the year 1335 Zambono was found to be the son of the late Fanzago. A good collection of family memories and documents can be found in the Archive of the Cartolari house, in three classes relating to its three surnames Aliprandi, Fanzago, Cartolari. Ancient legal evidence of nobility of the more Veneto family, they were once in the public Collegiate Archive of Noble Jurists or Judges, and now they are kept at