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From Tavernole, on the western shore of Lake Iseo, this ancient family originated which had ramifications in Milan, Lodena but above all in Brescia. In Milan a Giacomo di Giovanni, Viviano's brother of whom we speak further on, in 1437 obtained citizenship but the branch soon died out; in Modena, on the other hand, another branch became extinct in the first years of the century. XIX with Count Giuseppe, former Minister and Butler of the Estensi. Viviano di Giacomo who, together with 5 brothers, appears in a notarial deed of 1290 and is the certain progenitor of all the Brescia descendants: his sons were Giovanni and Federico. Giovanni, who lived in 1420, was an army leader following the Visconti family and had for children: Fedreghino from whom, after 12 generations, Federico di Giuliano and Pietro descended, who was the ancestor of Galeazzo and Ventura, both famous for the part that they had in the conspiracy and the uprising of the Brescians against the French in the siege of 1512. A nephew of these, Carlo Celso, was first leader under the emperor Ferdinand III and afterwards, passed in the service of the Venetian republic, he was governor of Candia who in 1645 defended so valiantly against the Turks that he was created colonel and awarded the title of Count for himself and descendants. This branch died out with Ottavio in 1745. Federico, Viviano's other son, was the father of Tonino born in 1384, who distinguished himself in the wars between 1426 and 1454 between Venice and the Visconti and was awarded with wide privileges by Filippo Maria and then by Francesco Sforza, privileges for his merits were confirmed by the Venetian republic. Tonino was the progenitor of the various Brescian branches that gradually distinguished themselves with the name of the countries